{"id":741646,"date":"2022-11-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=741646"},"modified":"2022-11-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T14:00:00","slug":"esa-astronaut-class-of-2022-marcus-wandt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=741646","title":{"rendered":"ESA Astronaut Class of 2022 \u2013 Marcus Wandt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ESA_Astronaut_Class_of_2022_Marcus_Wandt_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Wandt, from Sweden, is a member of the ESA Astronaut Class of 2022. In this interview, he talks about the reasons that motivated him to apply for the position and his passion for space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Wandt\u00a0is one of the more than 22 500 candidates who submitted a valid application in 2021 in response to ESA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/Careers_at_ESA\/ESA_Astronaut_Selection\/Calling_all_future_astronauts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">call for new astronauts<\/a> for missions to the International Space Station and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s new class of astronauts includes career astronauts, members for the astronaut reserve and astronauts with a physical disability for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/Careers_at_ESA\/ESA_Astronaut_Selection\/Parastronaut_feasibility_project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">feasibility project<\/a>. They will start a 12-month basic training at ESA\u2019s European Astronaut Centre in spring 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Sets\/ESA_Astronaut_Class_2022_-_videos\/(result_type)\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" 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=\"_blank\" 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\/ESA_Astronaut_Class_of_2022_Marcus_Wandt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESA Astronaut Class of 2022 \u2013 Marcus Wandt<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Wandt, from Sweden, is a member of the ESA Astronaut Class of 2022. In this interview, he talks about the reasons that motivated him to apply for the position&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741647,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741646","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\/741646","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=741646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/741647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}