{"id":132618,"date":"2021-12-17T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/military-rescuers-geared-up-for-safe-landing-of-soyuz-spacecraft-carrying-space-tourists"},"modified":"2021-12-17T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T04:23:10","slug":"military-rescuers-geared-up-for-safe-landing-of-soyuz-spacecraft-carrying-space-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/military-rescuers-geared-up-for-safe-landing-of-soyuz-spacecraft-carrying-space-tourists","title":{"rendered":"Military rescuers geared up for safe landing of Soyuz spacecraft carrying space tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/military-rescuers-geared-up-for-safe-landing-of-soyuz-spacecraft-carrying-space-tourists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecialists of the Central Military District\u2019s search\/rescue and parachute service have been relocated in full to the Republic of Kazakhstan to provide for the safe landing of the Soyuz MS-20 descent capsule with space tourists from Japan on its board,\u201d the press office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Military District has redeployed additional personnel from the Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals to bolster the basic group that provided for the safe launch of the Soyuz spacecraft. In particular, about 50 more rescuers have been redeployed to Kazakhstan together with eight Mi-8 helicopters and two PEM-1 and PEM-2 \u2018Blue Bird\u2019 search and evacuation vehicles, the statement says.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the search and rescue operation to provide for the safe landing of the Soyuz MS-20 descent module involves about 200 rescuers, 12 Mi-8 helicopters, two An-12 planes and an An-26 aircraft and over 20 motor vehicles, including six pieces of \u2018Blue Bird\u2019 rescue and evacuation equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSpecialists of the Central Military District\u2019s search\/rescue and parachute service have been relocated in full to the Republic of Kazakhstan to provide for the safe landing of the Soyuz MS-20 descent capsule with space tourists from Japan on its board,\u201d the press office said in a statement. The Central Military District has redeployed additional personnel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132618","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}