{"id":233160,"date":"2015-09-02T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"732f45afe01ca06e6b2f21a314d5a927"},"modified":"2015-09-02T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T06:00:00","slug":"soyuz-tma-18m-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=233160","title":{"rendered":"Soyuz TMA-18M liftoff"},"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\/09\/soyuz_tma-18m_liftoff13\/15578558-2-eng-GB\/Soyuz_TMA-18M_liftoff_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov were launched into space on 2 September at 04:38 GMT (06:38 CEST) from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch marks the start of ESA\u2019s 10-day \u2018iriss\u2019 mission that will focus on testing new technologies and ways of running complex space missions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe astronaut\u2019s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft was pushed into Earth orbit as planned accelerating 50 km\/h on every&nbsp;second&nbsp;for the first nine minutes of their launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTheir docking is planned on 4 September at 07:42 GMT (09:42 CEST) but they will not enter their new home in space until the astronauts on both sides of the spacecraft hatch to ensure that there are no leaks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the whole mission with live updates via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/iriss\">iriss mission blog<\/a>&nbsp;and Twitter via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/esaoperations\">@esaoperations<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with Andreas at:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\/\">andreasmogensen.esa.int\/<\/a><\/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\/09\/soyuz_tma-18m_liftoff13\/15578558-2-eng-GB\/Soyuz_TMA-18M_liftoff_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov were launched into space on 2 September at 04:38 GMT (06:38 CEST) from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch marks the start of ESA\u2019s 10-day \u2018iriss\u2019 mission that will focus on testing new technologies and ways of running complex space missions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe astronaut\u2019s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft was pushed into Earth orbit as planned accelerating 50 km\/h on every&nbsp;second&nbsp;for the first nine minutes of their launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTheir docking is planned on 4 September at 07:42 GMT (09:42 CEST) but they will not enter their new home in space until the astronauts on both sides of the spacecraft hatch to ensure that there are no leaks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the whole mission with live updates via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/iriss\">iriss mission blog<\/a>&nbsp;and Twitter via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/esaoperations\">@esaoperations<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with Andreas at:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\/\">andreasmogensen.esa.int\/<\/a><\/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-233160","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\/233160","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=233160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233160\/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=233160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}