{"id":19198,"date":"2016-10-21T18:13:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T10:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-russian-trio-moves-into-space-station\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T10:13:56","slug":"u-s-russian-trio-moves-into-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-russian-trio-moves-into-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Russian trio moves into space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_283667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283667\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-283667\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161021-soyuz-2-630x439.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Soyuz craft\" width=\"630\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161021-soyuz-2-630x439.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161021-soyuz-2.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-283667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Russian Soyuz craft approaches the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three new crew members were welcomed aboard the International Space Station today, just in time to help out with a big moving job.<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and his Russian crewmates, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, floated out of their Russian Soyuz capsule and through the hatch into the station\u2019s Zvezda service module at 5:20 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p>They went through a gauntlet of handshakes and hugs from the three spacefliers who have been living aboard the orbital complex since July: NASA\u2019s Kate Rubins, Japan\u2019s Takuya Onishi and Russia\u2019s Anatoly Ivanishin, the station\u2019s commander.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a great flight,\u201d Kimbrough said during a post-arrival news conference.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Expedition 49-50 Crew Welcomed Aboard the Space Station\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fU0hqYYcTas?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>One of the first tasks facing the newly expanded crew will be to bring in Orbital ATK\u2019s robotic Cygnus cargo ship, which was launched on Monday and has been loitering in orbit while the Soyuz was en route.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial craft is now scheduled to arrive on Sunday. It will take several weeks to unload 5,100 pounds of supplies and load up the Cygnus with trash for disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Rubins, Onishi and Ivanishin&nbsp;\u2013 are scheduled to return to Earth aboard a different Soyuz craft on Oct. 30.&nbsp;Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko will spend a little more than four months keeping up the station and conducting more than 250 scientific investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a completely different orbit, two Chinese astronauts are conducting experiments aboard the Tiangong 2 space lab.<\/p>\n<p>Spacefliers Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong arrived at the lab&nbsp;aboard their&nbsp;Shenzhou 11 spacecraft on Wednesday and are due to spend 30 days on Tiangong 2, marking China\u2019s longest-ever crewed space mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian Soyuz craft approaches the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA) Three new crew members were welcomed aboard the International Space Station today, just in time to help out with a big moving job. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and his Russian crewmates, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, floated out of their Russian Soyuz capsule 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":[717,1302],"class_list":["post-19198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-soyuz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19198"}],"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=19198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}