{"id":18695,"date":"2017-12-19T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/a-new-trio-settles-in-on-the-space-station\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T20:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:49:05","slug":"a-new-trio-settles-in-on-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/a-new-trio-settles-in-on-the-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"A new trio settles in on the space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_384990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-384990\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-384990\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171219-crew-630x354.jpg\" alt=\"Space station crew\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171219-crew-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171219-crew-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171219-crew.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-384990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The six space station crewmates of Expedition 54 face the camera after their orbital meetup. Upper row: Joe Acaba, Alexander Misurkin and Mark Vande Hei. Lower row: Scott Tingle, Anton Shkaplerov and Norishige Kanai. (NASA TV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> The International Space Station\u2019s crew is back up to its full complement of six, thanks to today\u2019s arrival of three fresh spacefliers aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. NASA\u2019s Scott Tingle, Russia\u2019s Anton Shkaplerov and Japan\u2019s Norishige Kanai were launched into space over the weekend&nbsp;and will be in orbit until next June. They join the station\u2019s current Russian commander, Alexander Misurkin, and NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, who\u2019ll be heading back home in February. One of the sextet\u2019s first tasks will be to unpack all the holiday goodies aboard a just-arrived SpaceX Dragon cargo ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six space station crewmates of Expedition 54 face the camera after their orbital meetup. Upper row: Joe Acaba, Alexander Misurkin and Mark Vande Hei. Lower row: Scott Tingle, Anton Shkaplerov and Norishige Kanai. (NASA TV) News Brief: The International Space Station\u2019s crew is back up to its full complement of six, thanks to today\u2019s [&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-18695","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\/18695"}],"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=18695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}