{"id":741595,"date":"2022-11-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=741595"},"modified":"2022-11-23T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T15:00:00","slug":"announcement-of-esas-new-class-of-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=741595","title":{"rendered":"Announcement of ESA&#039;s new class of astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Announcement_of_ESA_s_new_class_of_astronauts_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:26:06<\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s new class of astronauts is announced on Wednesday, 23 November 2022 at the Grand Palais \u00c9ph\u00e9m\u00e8re (GPE) in Paris. The new class includes career astronauts, reserve astronauts as well as astronauts with a physical disability for a feasibility project.<\/p>\n<p>Last year and for the first time since 2008, ESA launched a call for applications and it received more than 22 500 valid applications. Today, ESA now reveals which of these were successful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Sets\/ESA_Astronaut_Class_2022_-_videos\/(result_type)\/videos\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch the other<i>\u00a0ESA Astronaut Class 2022<\/i> videos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/esatv\/Videos\/2022\/11\/ESA_Astronaut_Class_of_2022_Interviews\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Access the related broadcast quality footage.<\/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\/2022\/11\/Announcement_of_ESA_s_new_class_of_astronauts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Announcement of ESA&#8217;s new class of astronauts<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:26:06 ESA\u2019s new class of astronauts is announced on Wednesday, 23 November 2022 at the Grand Palais \u00c9ph\u00e9m\u00e8re (GPE) in Paris. The new class includes career astronauts, reserve astronauts&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741596,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741595","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\/741595","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=741595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/741596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}