{"id":18807,"date":"2017-09-13T01:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/six-hours-after-launch-u-s-russian-crew-hooks-up-with-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T01:55:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:55:35","slug":"six-hours-after-launch-u-s-russian-crew-hooks-up-with-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/six-hours-after-launch-u-s-russian-crew-hooks-up-with-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Six hours after launch, U.S.-Russian crew hooks up with International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut arrived at the International Space Station tonight for a five-month tour of duty after a quick six-hour trip on a Russian Soyuz craft. With Russia\u2019s Alexander Misurkin as commander and NASA\u2019s Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba as crewmates, the Soyuz was launched from Russia\u2019s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:17 p.m. PT (3:17 a.m. local time Wednesday) and docked with the station at 7:56 p.m. PT. Acaba and Vande Hei join NASA\u2019s Randy Bresnik, Russia\u2019s Sergey Ryazanskiy and Italy\u2019s Paolo Nespoli on the crew. Non-Russians are in the majority due to cost-cutting moves on Russia\u2019s part.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"New Soyuz Crew Launches to the International Space Station\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d3S7iy_4pvs?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut arrived at the International Space Station tonight for a five-month tour of duty after a quick six-hour trip on a Russian Soyuz craft. With Russia\u2019s Alexander Misurkin as commander and NASA\u2019s Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba as crewmates, the Soyuz was launched from Russia\u2019s Baikonur Cosmodrome in [&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-18807","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\/18807"}],"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=18807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}