{"id":11666,"date":"2014-11-05T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11666"},"modified":"2014-11-05T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T12:48:18","slug":"life-aboard-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/life-aboard-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Aboard The International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/110514_1244_LifeAboardT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The appropriately named Mariella Moon spoke with an astronaut to find out what life on the International Space Station (ISS) is like. Some of the more interesting highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ISS orbits the earth every 90 minutes which means that those onboard go through 16 sunsets and rises a day.<\/li>\n<li>Now that America has retired its space shuttle program, astronauts hitch rides on the Russian Soyuz craft to get to the Space Station. It costs $71 million per person.<\/li>\n<li>A condition to get on the Soyuz is the ability to speak Russian.<\/li>\n<li>In 2011 the\u00a0ISS got internet although it was incredibly slow at first. These days astronauts can browse the web at speeds of 300 Mbps.<\/li>\n<li>However crew members report that the best form of entertainment is simply to look out the window at the planet below. (They&#8217;ve clearly never been exposed to Centives).<\/li>\n<li>Astronauts are allowed to sleep 8.5 hours a day every 24 hours. Most wake up after six though since the body is less tired in microgravity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article includes many more details including a sample daily schedule, experiments that are done, and how triathlons are done in space. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/11\/04\/international-space-station-explainer\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/11\/04\/international-space-station-explainer\/\">Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appropriately named Mariella Moon spoke with an astronaut to find out what life on the International Space Station (ISS) is like. Some of the more interesting highlights include: The ISS orbits the earth every 90 minutes which means that those onboard go through 16 sunsets and rises a day. Now that America has retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/110514_1244_LifeAboardT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11669,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11666\/revisions\/11669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}