{"id":160072,"date":"2023-03-12T12:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/four-astronauts-fly-spacex-back-home-end-5-month-mission"},"modified":"2023-03-12T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T17:22:17","slug":"four-astronauts-fly-spacex-back-home-end-5-month-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/four-astronauts-fly-spacex-back-home-end-5-month-mission","title":{"rendered":"Four astronauts fly SpaceX back home, end 5-month mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/four-astronauts-fly-spacex-back-home-end-5-month-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Four space station astronauts returned to Earth late Saturday after a quick SpaceX flight home.<\/p>\n<p>Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew spent five months at the International Space Station, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/space-launches-russia-ukraine-spacex-exploration-science-8e2ba8ddc6438bf5f978a357caf77aff\">arriving last October<\/a>. Besides dodging space junk, the astronauts had to deal with a pair of leaking Russian capsules docked to the orbiting outpost and the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-science-aerospace-3971c97124a60a77561bd48678718ae6\">urgent delivery of a replacement craft<\/a> for the station\u2019s other crew members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Four space station astronauts returned to Earth late Saturday after a quick SpaceX flight home. Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast. The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew spent five months at the International Space Station, arriving last October. Besides dodging space junk, the astronauts had [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160072","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=160072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}