{"id":752332,"date":"2023-04-03T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=752332"},"modified":"2023-04-03T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T11:10:00","slug":"new-esa-astronaut-candidates-start-basic-training-marco-sieber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=752332","title":{"rendered":"New ESA astronaut candidates start basic training &#8211; Marco Sieber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/New_ESA_astronaut_candidates_start_basic_training_-_Marco_Sieber_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA astronaut candidate\u00a0Marco Sieber on his first day at the European Astronaut Centre.<\/p>\n<p>ESA&#8217;s newly selected astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 arrived at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, on 3 April 2023 to begin their 12-month basic training.<\/p>\n<p>The group of five candidates, Sophie Adenot, Pablo \u00c1lvarez Fern\u00e1ndez, Rosemary Coogan, Rapha\u00ebl Li\u00e9geois, and Marco Sieber, are part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22 500 applicants from across ESA Member States in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The astronaut candidates will be trained to the highest level of standards in preparation for future space missions. During basic training, this includes learning all about space exploration, technical and scientific disciplines, space systems and operations, as well as spacewalk and survival training.<\/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\/Images\/2023\/04\/New_ESA_astronaut_candidates_start_basic_training_-_Marco_Sieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New ESA astronaut candidates start basic training &#8211; Marco Sieber<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA astronaut candidate\u00a0Marco Sieber on his first day at the European Astronaut Centre. ESA&#8217;s newly selected astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 arrived at the European Astronaut Centre in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752333,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752332","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\/752332","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=752332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}