{"id":17740,"date":"2020-04-17T00:59:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-russian-trio-leaves-space-station-and-returns-to-earth-in-the-age-of-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T00:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:59:33","slug":"u-s-russian-trio-leaves-space-station-and-returns-to-earth-in-the-age-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-russian-trio-leaves-space-station-and-returns-to-earth-in-the-age-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Russian trio leaves space station and returns to Earth in the age of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Soyuz MS-15 deorbit and landing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mtk7XYDcbWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut ended a months-long tour of duty on the International Space Station and returned to Earth&nbsp;to face a viral outbreak that didn\u2019t exist when they launched.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NASA\u2019s Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir, and Russia\u2019s Oleg Skripochka, left the station in their Russian Soyuz capsule at 6:53 p.m. PT today and touched down in Kazakhstan a little more than three hours later, at 10:16 p.m. PT (11:16 a.m. local time April 17).<\/li>\n<li>Recovery team members wore face masks as they carried the spacefliers from the Soyuz for their initial medical checks. \u201cPlease keep the distance, as the president has told us,\u201d one team member said in Russian. Morgan had been on the station since last July, and Meir and Skripochka launched in September \u2014 weeks before the first case of COVID-19 came to light in China.<\/li>\n<li>Three other crew members \u2014 NASA\u2019s Chris Cassidy and Russia\u2019s Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner \u2014 are keeping the lights on at the station. The orbital outpost\u2019s next scheduled visitors are NASA\u2019s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who are due to make a precedent-setting trip on SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spaceship as early as next month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut ended a months-long tour of duty on the International Space Station and returned to Earth&nbsp;to face a viral outbreak that didn\u2019t exist when they launched. NASA\u2019s Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir, and Russia\u2019s Oleg Skripochka, left the station in their Russian Soyuz capsule at 6:53 p.m. PT today [&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":[2327,717,2251,1302],"class_list":["post-17740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-andrew-morgan","tag-international-space-station","tag-jessica-meir","tag-soyuz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740"}],"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=17740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}