{"id":233088,"date":"2015-08-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a58acdb3c16dbd8ec9959144e557ba8"},"modified":"2015-08-30T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T22:00:00","slug":"soyuz-tma-18m-roll-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=233088","title":{"rendered":"Soyuz TMA-18M roll out"},"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\/08\/soyuz_tma-18m_roll_out\/15574765-1-eng-GB\/Soyuz_TMA-18M_roll_out_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEvery space mission to the International Space Station starts with a train ride. The Soyuz TMA-18M that will take ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, cosmonaut commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov to space 2 September at 4:37 GMT was rolled out to the launchpad 31 August 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is a short distance from the final assembly building to the launchpad, but the train rides slowly. Later the Soyuz rocket and spacecraft are erected ready for launch.Their Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft will reach 28 800 km\/h in less than an hour. Within 10 minutes of rising from the pad, the trio will have travelled over 1640 km and gained 210 km altitude. Every&nbsp;<i>second<\/i>&nbsp;for nine minutes, their spacecraft will have accelerated 50 km\/h on average.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAndreas is heading for the International Space Station on a 10-day mission to test technology, new ways of running space missions and swap a 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\/videos\/2015\/08\/soyuz_tma-18m_roll_out\/15574765-1-eng-GB\/Soyuz_TMA-18M_roll_out_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEvery space mission to the International Space Station starts with a train ride. The Soyuz TMA-18M that will take ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, cosmonaut commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov to space 2 September at 4:37 GMT was rolled out to the launchpad 31 August 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is a short distance from the final assembly building to the launchpad, but the train rides slowly. Later the Soyuz rocket and spacecraft are erected ready for launch.Their Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft will reach 28 800 km\/h in less than an hour. Within 10 minutes of rising from the pad, the trio will have travelled over 1640 km and gained 210 km altitude. Every&nbsp;<i>second<\/i>&nbsp;for nine minutes, their spacecraft will have accelerated 50 km\/h on average.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAndreas is heading for the International Space Station on a 10-day mission to test technology, new ways of running space missions and swap a 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-233088","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\/233088","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=233088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233088\/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=233088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}