{"id":559604,"date":"2018-12-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f498544d6556f59783e46dd5f40ca47e"},"modified":"2018-12-19T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:00:00","slug":"how-do-astronauts-return-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=559604","title":{"rendered":"How do astronauts return to Earth?"},"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\/2018\/12\/how_do_astronauts_return_to_earth\/19164358-1-eng-GB\/How_do_astronauts_return_to_Earth_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe ride home from the International Space Station sees the astronauts brake from 28&nbsp;800 km\/h to a standstill at touchdown in barely three hours. How does the Soyuz spacecraft reenter the atmosphere? And how does the capsule land?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWatch in just two minutes the sequence of events from farewell to landing. This video is based on a training lesson for ESA astronauts, and it features dramatic footage of actual landings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo find out more, watch the extended version: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-l7MM9yoxII\">Soyuz undocking, reentry and landing explained.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ride home from the International Space Station sees the astronauts brake from 28&nbsp;800 km\/h to a standstill at touchdown in barely three hours. How does the Soyuz spacecraft reenter the atmosphere? And how does the capsule land?<\/p>\n<p>Wat&#8230;<\/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-559604","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\/559604","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=559604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559605,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559604\/revisions\/559605"}],"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=559604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}