{"id":624721,"date":"2019-07-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624721"},"modified":"2019-07-20T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T10:00:00","slug":"soyuz-ride-to-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624721","title":{"rendered":"Soyuz ride to the Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Soyuz_ride_to_the_Space_Station_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe ride to the International Space Station sees astronauts launched on top of a rocket fuelled by 300 tonnes of propellant. Where on Earth do astronauts take off? When do they experience weightlessness for the first time? And how long does the trip take?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWatch in just over a minute the events from launch to docking. This video is based on a training lesson for ESA astronauts, and it features footage taken from inside the Soyuz spacecraft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo find out more, watch the extended versions: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AVvgpKt5uCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Soyuz launch sequence explained<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M2_NeFbFcSw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Soyuz rendezvous and docking explained<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Credits: <\/b>ESA\/NASA\/Roscosmos\/Google Earth\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2019\/06\/Soyuz_ride_to_the_Space_Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Soyuz ride to the Space Station<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ride to the International Space Station sees astronauts launched on top of a rocket fuelled by 300 tonnes of propellant. Where on Earth do astronauts take off? When do&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624722,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624721","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\/624721","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/624722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}