{"id":351462,"date":"2017-07-28T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8e44363ca00ed47b1537dce3867dac66"},"modified":"2017-07-28T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:15:00","slug":"vita-docking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=351462","title":{"rendered":"Vita docking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nReplay of the docking of the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft to the International Space Station with ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and Roscosmos commander Sergey Ryazansky. The astronauts were launched to Space Station on 28 July from Baikonur Cosmodrome.\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter orbiting Earth four times to catch up to the International Space Station, the car-sized spacecraft arrived at the Station six hours after launch. Paolo, Randy and Sergey will spend five months in space working and living on the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Vita mission is the tenth long-duration mission for an ESA astronaut and the third mission to the Station for Paolo Nespoli.\n<\/p>\n

\nVita stands for Vitality, Innovation, Technology and Ability and was chosen by Italy\u2019s ASI space agency, which is providing the mission through a barter agreement with NASA.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn Italian, \u201cvita\u201d means \u201clife\u201d, reflecting the experiments that Paolo will run and the philosophical notion of living in outer space \u2013 one of the most inhospitable places for humans.\n<\/p>\n

\nPaolo\u2019s extensive scientific programme includes experiments in biology, human physiology as well as space environment monitoring, materials science and technology demonstrations.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhen not performing science, Paolo will work with his colleagues to maintain the Space Station and keep the orbital outpost running smoothly for the crew of six.\n<\/p>\n

\nFollow Paolo and his mission via paolonespoli.esa.int<\/a> and the mission blog<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nReplay of the docking of the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft to the International Space Station with ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and Roscosmos commander Sergey Ryazansky. The astronauts were launched to Space Station on 28 July from Baikonur Cosmodrome.\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter orbiting Earth four times to catch up to the International Space Station, the car-sized spacecraft arrived at the Station six hours after launch. Paolo, Randy and Sergey will spend five months in space working and living on the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Vita mission is the tenth long-duration mission for an ESA astronaut and the third mission to the Station for Paolo Nespoli.\n<\/p>\n

\nVita stands for Vitality, Innovation, Technology and Ability and was chosen by Italy’s ASI space agency, which is providing the mission through a barter agreement with NASA.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn Italian, “vita” means “life”, reflecting the experiments that Paolo will run and the philosophical notion of living in outer space – one of the most inhospitable places for humans.\n<\/p>\n

\nPaolo’s extensive scientific programme includes experiments in biology, human physiology as well as space environment monitoring, materials science and technology demonstrations.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhen not performing science, Paolo will work with his colleagues to maintain the Space Station and keep the orbital outpost running smoothly for the crew of six.\n<\/p>\n

\nFollow Paolo and his mission via paolonespoli.esa.int<\/a> and the mission blog<\/a> for updates.<\/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-351462","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\/351462","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=351462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361761,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351462\/revisions\/361761"}],"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=351462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}