{"id":26563,"date":"2018-02-02T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/02\/astronaut-thomas-pesquet-earth-is-just-a-big-spaceship-with-a-crew-it-needs-looking-after\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T13:49:08","slug":"astronaut-thomas-pesquet-earth-is-just-a-big-spaceship-with-a-crew-it-needs-looking-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=26563","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Thomas Pesquet: \u2018Earth is just a big spaceship with a crew. It needs looking after\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stint in space showed the ESA astronaut Earth\u2019s fragility \u2013 and convinced him international cooperation is urgently neededAs divisions between them widen on Earth, space must be where countries show they can work together for a common good, France\u2019s best-known astronaut has said in a powerful plea for international cooperation beyond the final frontier.\u201cFrom up there, the Earth seems so small, so tiny, so \u2026 the same,\u201d said Thomas Pesquet, who spent 196 days, 17 hours and 49 minutes in space on the 50th and 51st expeditions to the International Space Station (ISS), returning in June last year. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/feb\/02\/astronaut-thomas-pesquet-earth-is-just-a-big-spaceship-with-a-very-big-crew-\" target=\"_blank\">Astronaut Thomas Pesquet: \u2018Earth is just a big spaceship with a crew. It needs looking after\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stint in space showed the ESA astronaut Earth\u2019s fragility \u2013 and convinced him international cooperation is urgently neededAs divisions between them widen on Earth, space must be where countries show they can work together for a common good, France\u2019s best-known astronaut has said in a powerful plea for international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}