{"id":708870,"date":"2021-11-19T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708870"},"modified":"2021-11-19T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T09:50:00","slug":"crew-photo-expedition-66-on-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708870","title":{"rendered":"Crew photo: Expedition 66 on Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Crew_photo_Expedition_66_on_Station_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer arrives aboard the International Space Station with his crew mates NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn.<\/p>\n<p>The four astronauts were greeted by Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov (current Space Station commander) and Piotr Dubrov as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.<\/p>\n<p>Tom affixed pins to the lapels of Matthias, Kayla and Raja signifying their new status as flown astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>Matthias posted this image to his social media channels on 17 November as his first post from orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Cosmic Kiss\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Cosmic_kiss\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">mission page<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about Matthias\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2021\/11\/Crew_photo_Expedition_66_on_Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Crew photo: Expedition 66 on Station<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer arrives aboard the International Space Station with his crew mates NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn. The four astronauts were greeted by Roscosmos&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708871,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708870","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\/708870","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=708870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/708871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}