{"id":4500,"date":"2026-07-27T16:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/nasa-astronaut-chris-williams-returns-to-earth\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:48:46","slug":"nasa-astronaut-chris-williams-returns-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/nasa-astronaut-chris-williams-returns-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Returns to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/55419246867-809993deb3-o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/55419246867-809993deb3-o.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"NASA astronaut Chris Williams grins at the camera while holding a walkie-talkie up to his ear. He&apos;s wearing a blue and white spacesuit that has various patches on the chest and left arm. His helmet is open. Someone in a blue jumpsuit stands behind him, and there are more people standing behind a red and white tape barrier.\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA astronaut Chris Williams is all smiles in this July 26, 2026, photo taken shortly after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-astronaut-chris-williams-crewmates-return-from-space-station\/\">landed<\/a> with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in Kazakhstan. This was Williams\u2019 first mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams spent eight months aboard the International Space Station, where he supported a wide range of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/station\/iss-research\/nasa-astronaut-chris-williams-closes-out-space-station-mission\/\">scientific investigations<\/a>\u00a0and technology demonstrations. He also completed two spacewalks to prep for space station\u00a0power system upgrades\u00a0and to\u00a0replace a faulty joint\u00a0on the Canadarm2 robotic arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Chris Williams is all smiles in this July 26, 2026, photo taken shortly after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in Kazakhstan. This was Williams\u2019 first mission. Williams spent eight months aboard the International Space Station, where he supported a wide range of\u00a0scientific investigations\u00a0and technology &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gundem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}