{"id":230168,"date":"2015-06-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"1b7ce2db65ce3cb567921817dbb6b08a"},"modified":"2015-06-10T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T22:00:00","slug":"soyuz-tma-15m-landing-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=230168","title":{"rendered":"Soyuz TMA-15M landing \u2013 highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/06\/soyuz_tma-15m_landing_highlights\/15441351-1-eng-GB\/Soyuz_TMA-15M_landing_highlights_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed in the Kazakh steppe after a&nbsp;three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft 11 June 2015. They left the International Space Station at&nbsp;10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSoyuz TMA-15M braked from the Station\u2019s cruising speed of almost 28 800 km\/h and entered the atmosphere six hours later. The small descent module separated as planned and parachutes deployed to slow the vehicle down even more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe module fired retrorockets moments before landing and springs in the moulded seats reduced the impact of hitting the steppe at&nbsp;13:44 GMT. Teams were on hand within minutes to help them out.<\/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\/videos\/2015\/06\/soyuz_tma-15m_landing_highlights\/15441351-1-eng-GB\/Soyuz_TMA-15M_landing_highlights_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed in the Kazakh steppe after a&nbsp;three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft 11 June 2015. They left the International Space Station at&nbsp;10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSoyuz TMA-15M braked from the Station\u2019s cruising speed of almost 28 800 km\/h and entered the atmosphere six hours later. The small descent module separated as planned and parachutes deployed to slow the vehicle down even more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe module fired retrorockets moments before landing and springs in the moulded seats reduced the impact of hitting the steppe at&nbsp;13:44 GMT. Teams were on hand within minutes to help them out.<\/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-230168","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\/230168","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=230168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230168\/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=230168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}