{"id":960104,"date":"2026-07-26T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T09:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:29:23","slug":"maine-astronaut-jessica-meir-takes-command-of-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960104\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine astronaut Jessica Meir takes command of International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maine astronaut Jessica Meir takes command of International Space Station<\/p>\n

\"Connor<\/a>International Space Station \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

Ahead of their departure, Meir reflected on the crew’s time together in a post on X, calling it “a bittersweet day” as the station prepares to say goodbye to the Soyuz 74S crew. <\/p>\n

“Expedition 74 has been full of science, technology demonstrations and station maintenance, and most importantly, enduring friendship and ‘huggles,'” Meir wrote. “See you back on Earth my friends!” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maine astronaut Jessica Meir takes command of International Space Station International Space Station \u2014 NASA astronaut Jessica Meir,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":960105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[24],"tags":[13633,267169,28215,198745,3057,577,294708,2741,916,43825,159,783,167,362526,67,132,68,21150,10694],"class_list":["post-960104","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-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-us-senate","tag-wmtw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116985579601771205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}