{"id":712222,"date":"2021-12-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=712222"},"modified":"2021-12-24T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T09:00:00","slug":"matthias-international-christmas-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=712222","title":{"rendered":"Matthias\u2019 international Christmas greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matthias_international_Christmas_greetings_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer sends international Christmas greetings from space as he and his crew mates prepare to celebrate Christmas on board the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmic Kiss is Matthias&#8217; first mission to the International Space Station ISS and makes spending Christmas in orbit an extraordinary experience. To spread the holiday spirit and convey the value of being part of a multicultural team, Matthias has chosen different languages, where he was sure that he pronounces them in a correct way, to wish &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; from space.<\/p>\n<p>Matthias was launched to the International Space Station on Crew Dragon Endurance as part of Crew-3 at 02:03 GMT\/03:03 CET Thursday 11 November 2021. His ESA mission is known as Cosmic Kiss and will see him live and work for approximately six months in orbit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Cosmic_kiss\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Follow Matthias<\/a><\/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\/12\/Matthias_international_Christmas_greetings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Matthias\u2019 international Christmas greetings<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer sends international Christmas greetings from space as he and his crew mates prepare to celebrate Christmas on board the International Space Station. Cosmic Kiss is Matthias&#8217;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712223,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712222","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=712222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/712223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}