{"id":252255,"date":"2025-11-09T01:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252255\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:48:14","slug":"space-junk-delays-astronauts-returning-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252255\/","title":{"rendered":"Space junk delays astronauts returning home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three astronauts who have been on a space station for the past 6 months will have to wait a little bit longer to get home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It wasn&#8217;t bad space traffic that delayed them, but tiny bits of space debris causing trouble for astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s suspected bits of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/56902948\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">space junk<\/a> hit their return spacecraft &#8211; Shenzhou-20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) is now doing lots of tests and assessments to make sure the ship is safe for the astronauts to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three astronauts who have been on a space station for the past 6 months will have to wait&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-252255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}