{"id":290739,"date":"2025-09-25T01:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=94334e2e22fe15a9582a7c4b17bbc829"},"modified":"2025-09-25T01:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:59:51","slug":"airplane-aerobatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=290739","title":{"rendered":"Airplane Aerobatics"},"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\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A man in a dark blue jumpsuit faces away from the camera, watching a plane in the light blue sky. He shades his eyes with his right hand.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg 7966w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=300,159 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=768,407 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=1024,543 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=1536,815 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=2048,1086 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=400,212 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=600,318 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=900,477 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=1200,637 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54783045945-682fa4ee3b-o.jpg?resize=2000,1061 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/nick-hague\/\">Nick Hague<\/a> watches as Robert Schmidle Pitts Aerobatics perform, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George&#8217;s County, Maryland. Hague spent 171 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.<\/p>\n<p>While aboard the orbital laboratory, Hague and fellow NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore completed more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/station\/iss-research\/nasas-spacex-crew-9-scientific-mission-on-space-station-concludes\/\">900 hours of research<\/a> between more than 150 unique scientific experiments and technology demonstrations. Some of the research conducted included growing microalgae that could convert carbon dioxide into oxygen for the crew to breathe and testing an exercise device to keep crews healthy on long-duration missions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Nick Hague watches as Robert Schmidle Pitts Aerobatics perform, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George\u2019s County, Maryland. Hague spent 171 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72. While aboard the orbital laboratory, Hague and fellow NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore completed more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[16248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tyler-n-hague"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290739","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290872,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290739\/revisions\/290872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}