{"id":3359,"date":"2020-03-30T15:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:29:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T10:29:31","slug":"astronauts-release-u-s-spacecraft-from-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/news\/aviation-and-aerospace\/astronauts-release-u-s-spacecraft-from-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Release U.S. Spacecraft from Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman\u2019s Cygnus spacecraft was released from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/structure\/elements\/mobile-servicing-system.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadarm2<\/a>\u00a0at 11:16 a.m. EST and has departed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ditech.media\/news\/aviation-and-aerospace\/\">International Space Station<\/a>. After an extended mission to deploy several CubeSats in multiple orbits, Cygnus is scheduled to be deorbited on Feb. 25 to enter the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burn up harmlessly over the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/expeditions\/expedition58\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expedition 58<\/a>\u00a0Flight Engineers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/anne-c-mcclain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne McClain<\/a>\u00a0of NASA and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/astronauts\/canadian\/active\/bio-david-saint-jacques.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Saint-Jacques<\/a>\u00a0of the Canadian Space Agency used the station\u2019s robotic arm to release the craft, dubbed the \u201cSS John Young\u201d, after ground controllers unbolted the cargo vehicle from the Earth-facing port of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/structure\/elements\/unity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unity module<\/a>\u00a0earlier this morning.<\/p>\n<p>This Commercial Resupply Services contract mission delivered dozens of new and existing investigations as Expedition 58 contributes to some hundreds of science and research studies. Highlights from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/news\/ng-10_research_highlights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new experiments<\/a>\u00a0include a demonstration of <a href=\"https:\/\/ditech.media\/news\/an-administrative-building-in-dubai-the-largest-3d-printed-structure-in-the-world\/\">3D printing<\/a> and recycling technology and simulating the creation of celestial bodies from stardust.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/spacestation\/2019\/02\/08\/astronauts-release-u-s-spacecraft-from-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/spacestation\/2019\/02\/08\/astronauts-release-u-s-spacecraft-from-station\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original source: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman\u2019s Cygnus spacecraft was released from the\u00a0Canadarm2\u00a0at 11:16 a.m. EST and has departed the\u00a0International Space Station. After an extended mission to deploy several CubeSats in multiple orbits, Cygnus is scheduled to be deorbited on Feb. 25 to enter the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burn up harmlessly over the Pacific Ocean. Expedition 58\u00a0Flight Engineers\u00a0Anne McClain\u00a0of NASA &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":874,"featured_media":3360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,158,172,182,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}