{"id":209919,"date":"2025-05-03T04:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=1d9537a12394bed3ee98b878f6bb1136"},"modified":"2025-05-03T04:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:30:30","slug":"back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=209919","title":{"rendered":"Back to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"The Soyuz spacecraft looks like a cylinder with two lines stretching outward from it. It is oriented toward Earth, which is covered with white clouds.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg 8256w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/54470656907-2362dd2f92-o.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Jonny Kim<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MXzy9GahNHE\" rel=\"noopener\">undocking<\/a> on April 19, 2025. Three hours later, the spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan, returning astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>While aboard the International Space Station, Pettit conducted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/station\/iss-research\/science-meets-art-nasa-astronaut-don-pettit-turns-the-camera-on-science\/\">hundreds of hours of scientific investigations<\/a>, including research to enhance on-orbit metal 3D printing capabilities, advance water sanitization technologies, explore plant growth under varying water conditions, and investigate fire behavior in microgravity, all contributing to future space missions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Jonny Kim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking on April 19, 2025. Three hours later, the spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan, returning astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner to Earth. While aboard the International Space Station, Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of scientific investigations, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15651],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-space-station-iss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211544,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209919\/revisions\/211544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}