{"id":6402,"date":"2011-12-24T00:43:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/new-crew-arrives-at-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2011-12-24T00:43:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:43:50","slug":"new-crew-arrives-at-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/new-crew-arrives-at-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"New crew arrives at International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Space station now back at full staff of six<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Crew to prep station for commercial cargo ships<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* First commercial cargo ship to arrive in February<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Irene Klotz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec 23 (Reuters) &#8211; A Russian Soyuz<br \/>\ncapsule arrived at the International Space Station on<br \/>\n Friday with a trio of astronauts, bringing the orbital<br \/>\noutpost back to full staffing after a failed cargo ship launch<br \/>\nin August disrupted flight schedules.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA&#8217;s Don Pettit and the<br \/>\nEuropean Space Agency&#8217;s Andre Kuipers blasted off from the<br \/>\nBaikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday for the space<br \/>\nstation, a $100 billion research complex that orbits about 240<br \/>\nmiles above Earth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Their two-day trip in the cramped capsule ended at 10:19<br \/>\na.m. EST (1519 GMT) when the Soyuz slipped into the<br \/>\nEarth-facing docking port on the station&#8217;s Rassvet module.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Soyuz flies down the chimney of the International Space<br \/>\nStation with an early Christmas present for the crew &#8211; a return<br \/>\nto a steady-state six-person capability,&#8221; said NASA mission<br \/>\ncommentator Rob Navias during a televised broadcast of the<br \/>\ndocking.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Space station now back at full staff of six * Crew to prep station for commercial cargo ships * First commercial cargo ship to arrive in February By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec 23 (Reuters) &#8211; A Russian Soyuz capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Friday with a trio of astronauts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}