{"id":175,"date":"2008-06-09T19:46:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T19:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/esa-astronaut-application-is-complete-and-submitted\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T19:46:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T19:46:35","slug":"esa-astronaut-application-is-complete-and-submitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/esa-astronaut-application-is-complete-and-submitted\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Astronaut Application is Complete and Submitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the last few weeks working on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/my-esa-astronaut-application\/\">ESA Astronaut Application<\/a> offline.  Having a month from the time the application process opened, before the submission deadline, has given me time to mull over some of the questions.  It&#8217;s also given me time to collate all the data too, such as the name, address, manager and salary of every job I&#8217;ve ever had, of which there have been many.<\/p>\n<p>The last 2 evenings has seen me putting all the information in, reviewing it, fiddling with bits, correcting and elaborating, until finally I was happy with the application as a whole.  Now it&#8217;s just a waiting game to see how I fair and whether I will advance to the next stage. I would say wish me luck, but <strong>I don&#8217;t actually believe in luck<\/strong>. &#8220;Luck&#8221; is where opportunity and preparation meet.  The opportunity has arisen, and now only time will tell whether I was prepared for it or not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put a lot of thought into how my life will change if I am selected and it&#8217;s a pretty exciting prospect.  Certainly the course of the future will change radically, with a permanent move to Germany and the potential for long term stays in Russia and America.  Of course that will all pale into insignificance compared to <strong>the chance to actually go into space!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the last few weeks working on my ESA Astronaut Application offline. Having a month from the time the application process opened, before the submission deadline, has given me time to mull over some of the questions. It&#8217;s also given me time to collate all the data too, such as the name, address, manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}