{"id":784774,"date":"2026-07-26T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784774\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:40:10","slug":"maine-astronaut-jessica-meir-takes-command-of-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784774\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine astronaut Jessica Meir takes command of International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine astronaut Jessica Meir takes command of International Space Station<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmtw.com\/news-team\/f8f59c5b-c22d-4ecc-9638-f97ce7294a47\" aria-label=\"Connor Clement profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f8f59c5b-c22d-4ecc-9638-f97ce7294a47_1713803521.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Connor Clement\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>International Space Station \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who is from Maine, officially assumed command of the International Space Station on Saturday during a change of command ceremony, taking over leadership of the orbiting laboratory from Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Kud-Sverchkov is concluding his mission aboard the station alongside NASA flight engineer Chris Williams and Roscosmos flight engineer Sergei Mikaev. The trio is scheduled to return to Earth at 6:25 a.m. EDT on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Ahead of their departure, Meir reflected on the crew&#8217;s time together in a post on X, calling it &#8220;a bittersweet day&#8221; as the station prepares to say goodbye to the Soyuz 74S crew. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">&#8220;Expedition 74 has been full of science, technology demonstrations and station maintenance, and most importantly, enduring friendship and &#8216;huggles,'&#8221; Meir wrote. &#8220;See you back on Earth my friends!&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maine astronaut Jessica Meir takes command of International Space Station International Space Station \u2014 NASA astronaut Jessica Meir,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[4173,227627,298309,215483,3631,2645,250313,10482,718,5672,79,193,9175,321102,97136,14972],"class_list":["post-784774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-astronauts","tag-caribou","tag-democratic-nominee","tag-expedition-74","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss","tag-jessica-meir","tag-maine","tag-nasa","tag-roscosmos","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration","tag-troy-jackson","tag-us-senate","tag-wmtw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}