{"id":217980,"date":"2013-10-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/cygnus-releases-from-international-space-station"},"modified":"2013-10-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:00:00","slug":"cygnus-releases-from-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217980","title":{"rendered":"Cygnus Releases from International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station released Orbital Sciences&#8217; Cygnus spacecraft from the station&#8217;s robotic arm at 7:31 a.m. EDT on Oct. 22. Orbital Sciences engineers now will conduct a series of planned burns and maneuvers to move Cygnus toward a destructive re-entry in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere Wednesday, Oct. 23.<br \/>\nCygnus had been attached to the space station&#8217;s Harmony module for 23 days. The spacecraft delivered about 1,300 pounds (589 kilograms) of cargo, including food, clothing and student experiments, on a demonstration cargo resupply mission to the station.<br \/>\nCygnus was launched on Orbital&#8217;s Antares rocket on Sept. 18 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/Karen Nyberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station released Orbital Sciences&#8217; Cygnus spacecraft from the station&#8217;s robotic arm at 7:31 a.m. EDT on Oct. 22. Orbital Sciences engineers now will conduct a series of planned burns and maneuvers to move Cygnus toward a destructive re-entry in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere Wednesday, Oct. 23.<br \/>\nCygnus had been attached to the space station&#8217;s Harmony module for 23 days. The spacecraft delivered about 1,300 pounds (589 kilograms) of cargo, including food, clothing and student experiments, on a demonstration cargo resupply mission to the station.<br \/>\nCygnus was launched on Orbital&#8217;s Antares rocket on Sept. 18 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/Karen Nyberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}