{"id":795224,"date":"2025-04-11T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795224"},"modified":"2025-04-11T05:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:56:14","slug":"esa-ales-svoboda-supersonic-space-stuff-stem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795224","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Ale\u0161 Svoboda | Supersonic, Space Stuff &#038; STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Meet Ale\u0161 Svoboda\u2014 A skilled pilot with over 1500 flight hours, Ale\u0161 holds a PhD in aircraft and rocket technology and has commanded Quick Reaction Alerts. From flying high to training underwater, he\u2019s always ready to take on new challenges\u2014now including astronaut reserve training with ESA.<\/p>\n<p>In this miniseries, we take you on a journey through the ESA Astronaut Reserve, diving into the first part of their Astronaut Reserve Training (ART) at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) near Cologne, Germany. Our \u201cARTists\u201d are immersing themselves in everything from ESA and the International Space Station programme to the European space industry and institutions. They\u2019re gaining hands-on experience in technical skills like spacecraft systems and robotics, alongside human behaviour, scientific lessons, scuba diving, and survival training.<\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Astronaut Reserve Training programme is all about building Europe\u2019s next generation of space explorers\u2014preparing them for the opportunities of future missions in Earth orbit and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>This interview was recorded in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to this episode on all\u00a0major podcast platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Keep exploring with ESA Explores!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ale\u0161 Svoboda | Supersonic, Space Stuff &amp; STEM | ESA Explores #14\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ApJs_lQEGUI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/04\/Ales_Svoboda_Supersonic_Space_Stuff_STEM_ESA_Explores_14?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Ale\u0161 Svoboda\u2014 A skilled pilot with over 1500 flight hours, Ale\u0161 holds a PhD in aircraft and rocket technology and has commanded Quick Reaction Alerts. From flying high to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795224","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\/795224","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=795224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/795223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}