{"id":50194,"date":"2017-10-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/10\/14\/pope-francis-will-speak-with-astronauts-in-the-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T10:55:47","slug":"pope-francis-will-speak-with-astronauts-in-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/10\/14\/pope-francis-will-speak-with-astronauts-in-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis will speak with astronauts in the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On October 26, Pope Francis will place a satellite call with the six astronauts that are currently at the International Space Station.<\/strong> The meeting will be<strong> very similar to the one Benedict held six years ago<\/strong> with this group of astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict was amused at the time to see the astronauts floating.<\/p>\n<p>For that occasion, the then-pope had prepared five questions for the expedition, about issues such as peace or the environment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAPTAIN MARK E. KELLY <br \/>\nNASA Astronaut <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe science and the technology that we put in the Space Station to develop a solar power capability, gives us pretty much an unlimited amount of energy. If those technologies could be adapted more on Earth, we could possibly reduce some of that violence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the astronauts carried a silver medal, a gift from Benedict XVI. He had Michelangelo\u2019s \u201cCreation of Adam\u201d engraved on it.<\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, he gave it to one of the others to bring it back to earth and return it to the pope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BENEDICT XVI<\/strong><em><br \/>\n\u201cYou are our representatives, spear-heading humanity's exploration of new spaces and possibilities for our future, going beyond the limitations of our everyday existence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the station, astronauts from various space agencies collaborate together. During the months they spend in space, they carry out experiments they can't do on earth because of gravity.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 14, 2017. Benedict XVI talked with the astronauts in December 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":50195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wlzZvHJWJMs","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}