{"id":12137,"date":"2017-04-24T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T10:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=12137"},"modified":"2017-04-24T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T10:27:11","slug":"science-record-set-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/science-record-set-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Science record set on space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_12138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12138\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12138\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The record-breaking Expedition 50 crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If anything should break in space, let it be records. The astronauts of Expedition 50 have done just that by setting a new record for most time spent on scientific research on the International Space Station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, and cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Andrei Borisenko and Sergei Ryzhikov clocked a combined 99 hours of science in the week of 6 March.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"s_1\" class=\"section\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To put this into perspective, astronauts average a 40 hour working week split between science experiments, Station maintenance and exercising for 2.5 hours a day. The record-breaking hours exclude these non-science tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mission control tracks these statistics, as the number of hours devoted to science has fluctuated over the years on account of the Station\u2019s construction. Built over the years in segments, astronauts needed to assemble and maintain the orbital complex while also running experiments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This new record for science shows the crew is spending more time using the Station for its intended purpose as a weightless space laboratory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With more time for science comes our new \u2018Space Lab\u2019 article series that will highlight some of the European experiments performed on the Station. From human health to materials science, research in orbit is improving life on Earth while advancing space technology. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, that\u2019s 99 hours well spent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anything should break in space, let it be records. The astronauts of Expedition 50 have done just that by setting a new record for most time spent on scientific research on the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, and cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Andrei Borisenko and Sergei [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",625,416,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",625,416,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",625,416,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",625,416,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",625,416,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",625,416,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",625,416,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",600,399,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",600,399,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",625,416,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",541,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",625,416,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The_record-breaking_Expedition_50_crew_large.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}