{"id":17742,"date":"2020-04-09T23:51:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/a-new-trio-joins-space-station-crew-next-visitors-are-due-to-ride-spacexs-dragon\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T23:51:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:51:22","slug":"a-new-trio-joins-space-station-crew-next-visitors-are-due-to-ride-spacexs-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/a-new-trio-joins-space-station-crew-next-visitors-are-due-to-ride-spacexs-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"A new trio joins space station crew; next visitors are due to ride SpaceX\u2019s Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Soyuz-2.1a launches Soyuz MS-16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7Ld_b1pvSY?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>NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russian cosmonauts are settling into their new home on the International Space Station after today\u2019s launch and docking of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Soyuz was launched from Russia\u2019s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:05 p.m. local time (1:05 a.m. PT), carrying Cassidy and Russian crewmates Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner into space. After a four-orbit, six-hour trip, the trio arrived at the station and floated through the hatch to meet up with space station residents Andrew Morgan, Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka.<\/li>\n<li>Cassidy, a veteran of two previous spaceflights, is due to become the station\u2019s commander eight days from now when Morgan, Meir and Skripochka return to Earth. Morgan will have spent 271 days in orbit, a longer-than-normal stint that\u2019s aimed at helping NASA understand the effects of long-duration spaceflight.<\/li>\n<li>The newly arrived trio\u2019s tour of duty is expected to last six and a half months. If all goes according to plan, they\u2019ll greet NASA\u2019s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken next month when they arrive on the first-ever SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to carry astronauts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russian cosmonauts are settling into their new home on the International Space Station after today\u2019s launch and docking of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The Soyuz was launched from Russia\u2019s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:05 p.m. local time (1:05 a.m. PT), carrying Cassidy and Russian crewmates Anatoly Ivanishin and [&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":[717,190,1302],"class_list":["post-17742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-soyuz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17742"}],"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=17742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}