{"id":130724,"date":"2021-11-17T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/breaking-iss-astronauts-forced-to-board-crew-dragon-and-soyuz-to-prepare-for-a-possible-evacuation"},"modified":"2021-11-17T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T09:22:36","slug":"breaking-iss-astronauts-forced-to-board-crew-dragon-and-soyuz-to-prepare-for-a-possible-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/breaking-iss-astronauts-forced-to-board-crew-dragon-and-soyuz-to-prepare-for-a-possible-evacuation","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING ISS astronauts forced to board Crew Dragon and Soyuz to prepare for a possible evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breaking-iss-astronauts-forced-to-board-crew-dragon-and-soyuz-to-prepare-for-a-possible-evacuation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States said Monday it was investigating a \u201cdebris-generating event in outer space\u201d after astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to prepare for a possible evacuation. It came amid unconfirmed reports that Russia had carried out an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) test\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cUS Space Command is aware of a debris-generating event in outer space. We are actively working to characterize the debris field and will continue to ensure all space-faring nations have the information necessary to maneuver satellites if impacted,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also in the process of working with\u2026 the State Department and NASA, concerning these reports and will provide an update in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA has not yet commented, but its Russian counterpart Roscomos, downplayed the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States said Monday it was investigating a \u201cdebris-generating event in outer space\u201d after astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to prepare for a possible evacuation. It came amid unconfirmed reports that Russia had carried out an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) test\u2026 \u201cUS Space Command is aware of a debris-generating event in outer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}