{"id":4507,"date":"2026-07-24T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/new-crew-members-welcomed-to-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:43:02","slug":"new-crew-members-welcomed-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/new-crew-members-welcomed-to-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station"},"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\/iss074e0814792orig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/iss074e0814792orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a portrait while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station.\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Chris Williams<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/nasa-astronaut-anil-menon\/\">Anil Menon<\/a> of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station. The trio arrived at the space station on July 14, 2026, after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kikina, Dubrov, and Menon are in the second week of their planned eight-and-a-half-month mission. They are using their new skills to conduct space research while still familiarizing themselves with living and working in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/spacestation\/\">Keep up with space station activity on the International Space Station blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: NASA\/Chris Williams<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\/Chris Williams From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station. The trio arrived at the space station on July 14, 2026, after launching from the &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4507","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\/4507","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=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}