{"id":247399,"date":"2026-01-16T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247399\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:36:08","slug":"thats-their-only-ride-home-irish-scientist-on-mission-to-safely-return-iss-crew-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247399\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That\u2019s their only ride home\u2019 \u2013 Irish scientist on mission to safely return ISS crew to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Dr Niamh Shaw says evacuation marks a first for the space station\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nasa\u2019s Zena Cardman is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon capsule after the successful landing. Photo: Nasa\/AP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b6b043c4-4900-4afe-ba08-d491d9af496a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Nasa\u2019s Zena Cardman is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon capsule after the successful landing. Photo: Nasa\/AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The successful evacuation of four astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) is a moment of huge significance, an Irish scientist has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">SpaceX\u2019s Dragon Endeavour craft returned the crew members \u2013 Nasa\u2019s Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, as well as Japan\u2019s Kimiya Yui and Russia\u2019s Oleg Platonov \u2013 to Earth yesterday after an unspecified medical emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Niamh Shaw says evacuation marks a first for the space station Nasa\u2019s Zena Cardman is helped out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25666,61,60,91,3589,82,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-247399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-deirdre-barry","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nasa","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}