{"id":692435,"date":"2021-06-07T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692435"},"modified":"2021-06-07T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T18:30:00","slug":"kylian-mbappe-calls-astronaut-thomas-pesquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692435","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 calls astronaut Thomas Pesquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kylian_Mbappe_calls_astronaut_Thomas_Pesquet_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:21:00<\/p>\n<p>ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet talked to French national football team player Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 from the International Space Station during the Alpha mission in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>They talked about science, life in space, teamwork, international collaboration, performing under pressure, stress, risk, life behind the scenes and the parallels between professional sport and being an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas has said often said that sport taught him the values of team spirit and respecting team mates, and no astronaut is an island \u2013 if one profession is an example of teamwork it is being an astronaut. It takes a team to ensure they are at their best.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/06\/Kylian_Mbappe_calls_astronaut_Thomas_Pesquet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 calls astronaut Thomas Pesquet<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:21:00 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet talked to French national football team player Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 from the International Space Station during the Alpha mission in 2021. They talked about science,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692436,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}