{"id":439896,"date":"2026-02-22T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439896\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:45:12","slug":"nasa-astronaut-shares-striking-footage-of-iss-cartwheel-around-earth-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439896\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa astronaut shares striking footage of ISS \u2018cartwheel\u2019 around Earth | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nasa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nasa<\/a> astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/space-nasa-astronauts-evacuation-video-b2905255.html\" title=\"NASA astronauts make first public appearance after emergency medical evacuation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zena Cardman<\/a> has shared striking footage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/nasa-spacex-international-space-station-cape-canaveral-french-b2920564.html\" title=\"Four new astronauts arrive at the International Space Station to replace NASA&#039;s evacuated crew\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) &#8220;cartwheeling&#8221; around Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The ISS performed the rare manoeuvre to allow for a reboost by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/spacex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spacex<\/a> CRS-33. The space station orbits close enough to Earth that there is a small amount of atmospheric drag, and requires periodic reboosts as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The 60x speed timelapse shows the vessel perform an \u201corbital cartwheel\u201d, as the American astronaut named it, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Zena Cardman said, &#8220;This was one of my favourites since it captures a little of everything &#8211; sunset, lightning storms, air glow, moon glint, stars, and sunrise.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasa astronaut Zena Cardman has shared striking footage of the International Space Station (ISS) &#8220;cartwheeling&#8221; around Earth. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439896","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=439896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}