{"id":7249,"date":"2025-04-23T07:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/?p=7249"},"modified":"2025-04-23T07:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:59:27","slug":"a-personal-journey-to-space-an-afternoon-with-dr-norah-patten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/2025\/04\/23\/a-personal-journey-to-space-an-afternoon-with-dr-norah-patten\/","title":{"rendered":"A personal journey to Space: An Afternoon with Dr Norah Patten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for an inspiring session with <a id=\"ember757\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/norah-patten\/\">Norah Patten<\/a>.<br \/>\nDr Patten is part of the upcoming IIAS-02 research spaceflight with Virgin Galactic, which will make her the first Irish astronaut. She works with the <a class=\"rRTzISliewazIBoSugyHhfYZyGsarkJrM\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/astronauticsinstitute\/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aorganization_admin_admin_page_posts_published%3B83fff2e8-8031-427c-b8b9-ac2ff13ad8ce\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\" data-ntt-old-href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/astronauticsinstitute\/\">International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS)<\/a> and has been involved in several microgravity research campaigns, including commercial spacesuit testing and 3D bioprinting for skin grafts.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, 28th April 2025<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd52 15:00<br \/>\n\ud83d\udccdPlanetarium Hall, Villa Bighi, Kalkara<br \/>\n\ud83c\udf9f RSVP by Friday, 25th April <a class=\"rRTzISliewazIBoSugyHhfYZyGsarkJrM\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"mailto:space.xjenzamalta@gov.mt\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">space.xjenzamalta@gov.mt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All are welcome \u2014 aspiring scientists, space enthusiasts and curious minds alike!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for an inspiring session with Norah Patten. Dr Patten is part of the upcoming IIAS-02 research spaceflight with Virgin Galactic, which will make her the first Irish astronaut. She works with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) and has been involved in several microgravity research campaigns, including commercial spacesuit testing and 3D<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7251,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions\/7251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}