{"id":773352,"date":"2023-11-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773352"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:00:00","slug":"press-conference-with-esa-project-astronaut-marcus-wandt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773352","title":{"rendered":"Press conference with ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Press_conference_with_ESA_project_astronaut_Marcus_Wandt_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:39:52<\/p>\n<p>Watch the replay of the press conference with\u00a0ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt taking place at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne (Germany) as he prepares for his first mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>He was joined by another ESA astronaut, Matthias Maurer. Marcus\u2019s mission, called Muninn, is supported by ESA and the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA).<\/p>\n<p>The mission will last up to 14 days, in which Marcus will take part in microgravity research and educational outreach activities. Marcus will be a mission specialist on Ax-3 and his launch is scheduled on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft no earlier than January 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/esatv\/Videos\/2023\/09\/Marcus_Wandt_Muninn_mission_training\" 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\/2023\/11\/Press_conference_with_ESA_project_astronaut_Marcus_Wandt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Press conference with ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:39:52 Watch the replay of the press conference with\u00a0ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt taking place at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne (Germany) as he prepares for his first&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773353,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773352","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\/773352","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=773352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}