{"id":7150,"date":"2009-04-09T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2009-04-12T06:12:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T12:12:22","slug":"expedition-18-returns-or-astronauts-in-funky-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/expedition-18-returns-or-astronauts-in-funky-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Expedition 18 Returns! or Astronauts in Funky Hats."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Expedition_18\" class=\"external external_icon\">Expedition 18<\/a> ISS crew safely returned to Earth&#8217;s loving embrace in the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft yesterday.  Yes, while the mainstream world comes to grips with the idea that geeks have been <a href=\"http:\/\/seriouslyguys.com\/2009\/04\/08\/take-it-from-snee-communications-gone-to-s-t\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">tweeting about their poo<\/a> 3 years before <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/THE_REAL_SHAQ\" class=\"external external_icon\">Shaq<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wefollow.com\/tag\/politics\" class=\"external external_icon\">random US senators<\/a> entered the equation, astronauts continue to do their jobs progressing humankind&#8217;s knowledge of the world and its place in the universe.  <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=7155\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/expedition18-finckehat.jpg\" alt=\"expedition18-finckehat\" title=\"expedition18-finckehat\" width=\"505\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7155\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>What you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasahqphoto\/sets\/72157616429768163\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">see above<\/a> is the landing of Expedition 18 which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1325.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">available for download<\/a> in full wallpaper glory. The inset is Commander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasahqphoto\/3425665029\/in\/set-72157616429768163\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Fincke wearing a funky hat<\/a>. And by &#8220;funky hat&#8221; we mean the &#8220;traditional Kazakh dress and hat in Karaganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Just to be clear astronauts and cosmonauts are not averse to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/russia\/5079904\/Trouble-in-space-Row-brews-on-space-station-over-food-and-toilets.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">arguing over their poo<\/a>, either.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA\/status\/1476247401\" class=\"external external_icon\">@nasa<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Expedition 18 ISS crew safely returned to Earth&#8217;s loving embrace in the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft yesterday. Yes, while the mainstream world comes to grips with the idea that geeks have been tweeting about their poo 3 years before Shaq and random US senators entered the equation, astronauts continue to do their jobs progressing humankind&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,81],"tags":[518,1059,1055,238,1054,1058,1057,517,1056,475,93],"class_list":["post-7150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space","tag-astronauts","tag-commander","tag-cosmonaut","tag-earth-orbit","tag-expedition-18","tag-fincke","tag-funky-hats","tag-iss","tag-traditional-garb","tag-tweet-find","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}