{"id":7845,"date":"2013-05-14T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=7845"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T10:07:10","slug":"three-astronauts-return-to-earth-after-iss-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=7845","title":{"rendered":"Three astronauts return to Earth after ISS mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield on Tuesday returned to Earth along with two other astronauts after a half year mission to the International Space Station that saw him become a global celebrity through his Twitter microblog.<\/p>\n<p>Hadfield landed safely in the Kazakh steppe along with American Tom Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko aboard a Russian Soyuz-TMA capsule that had left the space station earlier Tuesday morning, mission control said.<\/p>\n<p>The Soyuz touched down at 0231 GMT in the steppe south of the central Kazakh city of Karaganda, Russian mission control and NASA TV confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>They were then placed in special chairs amid the long steppe grasses, covered in special thermal blankets and offered tea by the ground crews. All three appeared in good health.<\/p>\n<p>Hadfield had captured the public imagination with regular updates on Twitter that gave an unprecedented insight into daily life in space and access to spectacular images taken from the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>In a fitting climax to his mission, Hadfield posted a cover version of the David Bowie classic &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; that showed him singing and even playing the guitar aboard the station. It became an immediate hit on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield on Tuesday returned to Earth along with two other astronauts after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}