{"id":720973,"date":"2022-04-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720973"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:00:00","slug":"qa-with-esa-astronaut-samantha-cristoforetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720973","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Q_A_with_ESA_astronaut_Samantha_Cristoforetti_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t01:30:00<\/p>\n<p>Watch the replay of our live Q&amp;A media session (In English and Italian) with \u00a0ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha is scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA, no earlier than 21 April 2022. She will fly to the Station as a Mission Specialist aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft alongside NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival at the orbital outpost her ESA mission \u2018Minerva\u2019 will officially begin. This is the second space mission for Samantha and will see her support over 35 European and many more international experiments in microgravity.<\/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\/2022\/04\/Q_A_with_ESA_astronaut_Samantha_Cristoforetti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Q&amp;A with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 01:30:00 Watch the replay of our live Q&amp;A media session (In English and Italian) with \u00a0ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Samantha is scheduled to be launched to the International Space&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720974,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720973","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\/720973","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=720973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/720974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}