{"id":16298,"date":"2015-05-28T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T11:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dashcam-video-records-dazzling-soyuz-docking\/"},"modified":"2015-05-28T19:15:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T11:15:08","slug":"dashcam-video-records-dazzling-soyuz-docking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dashcam-video-records-dazzling-soyuz-docking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashcam video records dazzling Soyuz docking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pRaZgSVnsNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A video camera mounted inside a Russian Soyuz capsule captured stunning views of the docking of a U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station in March, supplying a spectacular visual of a cosmic ballet occurring 250 miles above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting through a window on the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft, the camera recorded the last phase of the capsule\u2019s radar-guided rendezvous with the space station March 27. The spaceship delivered NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko to the complex.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly and Kornienko are spending nearly one year on the space station, serving as living research subjects to help scientists learn how humans adapt to long-duration spaceflight. The data will help plan future expeditions to Mars, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The spinning object in the video is the Soyuz capsule\u2019s Kurs radar navigation antenna.<\/p>\n<p>The International Space Station \u2014 the largest spacecraft ever assembled \u2014 is about the size of a football field. The lab\u2019s truss backbone extends 357 feet tip-to-tip, and its huge power-generating solar array wings span nearly 240 feet.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video camera mounted inside a Russian Soyuz capsule captured stunning views of the docking of a U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station in March, supplying a spectacular visual of a cosmic ballet occurring 250 miles above Earth. Shooting through a window on the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft, the camera recorded the last phase of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3790,1545,717,1302,3961],"class_list":["post-16298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-expedition-43","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-international-space-station","tag-soyuz","tag-soyuz-tma-16m"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}