{"id":221408,"date":"2014-09-23T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"7239372eaf490b39fe5eea25103c7ffb"},"modified":"2014-09-23T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:14:00","slug":"dragon-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221408","title":{"rendered":"Dragon-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/09\/dragon-4\/14836539-1-eng-GB\/Dragon-4_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nDespite running the International Space Station with just three crewmembers, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman used the Station\u2019s 17 m-long Canadarm2 robotic arm to capture and berth the fourth Dragon supply vessel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSetting up a temporary robotics workstation in the Station\u2019s Cupola observatory module, the astronauts monitored the approaching six-tonne craft until it stopped 10 m from the Station. Working two joysticks, Alexander moved Canadarm2 to hold Dragon-4. From there, the spacecraft was berthed to the Space Station\u2019s Harmony module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Wednesday the hatch will be opened to reach the supplies. Dragon will stay for four weeks before it returns to Earth with experiments and samples.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLater this week the three astronauts now on the Station \u2013 commander Maxim Suarev, Alexander and Reid \u2013 will be joined by three new astronauts, arriving on a Soyuz spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/09\/dragon-4\/14836539-1-eng-GB\/Dragon-4_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nDespite running the International Space Station with just three crewmembers, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman used the Station\u2019s 17 m-long Canadarm2 robotic arm to capture and berth the fourth Dragon supply vessel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSetting up a temporary robotics workstation in the Station\u2019s Cupola observatory module, the astronauts monitored the approaching six-tonne craft until it stopped 10 m from the Station. Working two joysticks, Alexander moved Canadarm2 to hold Dragon-4. From there, the spacecraft was berthed to the Space Station\u2019s Harmony module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Wednesday the hatch will be opened to reach the supplies. Dragon will stay for four weeks before it returns to Earth with experiments and samples.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLater this week the three astronauts now on the Station \u2013 commander Maxim Suarev, Alexander and Reid \u2013 will be joined by three new astronauts, arriving on a Soyuz spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221408","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}