{"id":225454,"date":"2015-02-15T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"d93a86f18cf4cdeb5214c6f6b4c024ba"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T13:01:00","slug":"samantha-and-butch-in-atv-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225454","title":{"rendered":"Samantha and Butch in ATV-5"},"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\/2015\/02\/samantha_and_butch_in_atv-5\/15256569-1-eng-GB\/Samantha_and_Butch_in_ATV-5_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore inside ATV-5 as they load it with waste cargo, January 2015.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA&#8217;s Automated Transfer Vehicle <i>Georges Lema\u00eetre<\/i> left the International Space Station 14 February.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBefore undocking, astronauts loaded it with waste material, freeing up space on the weightless research centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis last ATV set the record for the heaviest Ariane 5 launch when it climbed into space from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana on 29 July 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt delivered 6.6 tonnes of supplies, including food, water, fuel, clothes and experiment hardware.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe versatile spacecraft also raised the Station\u2019s orbit and moved it out of the way of space debris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha Cristoforetti was responsible for loading the waste cargo. Follow her Futura mission via <a href=\"http:\/\/samanthacristoforetti.esa.int\">samanthacristoforetti.esa.int<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\" text-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBefore undocking, the Station crew loaded it with waste material, freeing up space on the weightless research centre.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\" text-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\" text-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe European cargo ship undocked on 14 February at 13:40 GMT (14:40 CET) and manoeuvred itself into a safe descent trajectory.<\/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\/2015\/02\/samantha_and_butch_in_atv-5\/15256569-1-eng-GB\/Samantha_and_Butch_in_ATV-5_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore inside ATV-5 as they load it with waste cargo, January 2015.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA&#8217;s Automated Transfer Vehicle <i>Georges Lema\u00eetre<\/i> left the International Space Station 14 February.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBefore undocking, astronauts loaded it with waste material, freeing up space on the weightless research centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis last ATV set the record for the heaviest Ariane 5 launch when it climbed into space from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana on 29 July 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt delivered 6.6 tonnes of supplies, including food, water, fuel, clothes and experiment hardware.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe versatile spacecraft also raised the Station\u2019s orbit and moved it out of the way of space debris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha Cristoforetti was responsible for loading the waste cargo. Follow her Futura mission via <a href=\"http:\/\/samanthacristoforetti.esa.int\">samanthacristoforetti.esa.int<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\" text-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\nBefore undocking, the Station crew loaded it with waste material, freeing up space on the weightless research centre.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\" text-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\" text-justify\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\nThe European cargo ship undocked on 14 February at 13:40 GMT (14:40 CET) and manoeuvred itself into a safe descent trajectory.<\/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-225454","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\/225454","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=225454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225454\/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=225454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}