{"id":774572,"date":"2023-11-28T03:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T08:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=774572"},"modified":"2023-11-28T03:40:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T08:40:53","slug":"spacelab-to-gateway-40-years-of-modules-for-people-in-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=774572","title":{"rendered":"Spacelab to Gateway: 40 years of modules for people in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2020\/03\/gateway\/21870782-1-eng-GB\/Gateway_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Gateway\"><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s first human spaceflight mission lifted off 40 years ago today. Accompanied by the first ESA astronaut, Ulf Merbold, the Spacelab module took flight inside the Space Shuttle\u2019s cargo bay,&nbsp;turning NASA\u2019s \u2018space truck\u2019 into a mini-space station for scientific research. Europe continues to be highly active in the crewed module business to this day.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Spacelab_to_Gateway_40_years_of_modules_for_people_in_space?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s first human spaceflight mission lifted off 40 years ago today. Accompanied by the first ESA astronaut, Ulf Merbold, the Spacelab module took flight inside the Space Shuttle\u2019s cargo bay,&nbsp;turning&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774572","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\/774572","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=774572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}