{"id":103241,"date":"2020-03-04T03:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/spacex-celebrates-crew-dragons-1st-launch-anniversary-with-epic-video"},"modified":"2020-03-04T03:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:04:06","slug":"spacex-celebrates-crew-dragons-1st-launch-anniversary-with-epic-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/spacex-celebrates-crew-dragons-1st-launch-anniversary-with-epic-video","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX celebrates Crew Dragon\u2019s 1st launch anniversary with epic video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-celebrates-crew-dragons-1st-launch-anniversary-with-epic-video2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One year ago today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a><strong> <\/strong>took a giant leap forward for private spaceflight with the launch of its first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18852-spacex-dragon.html\">Crew Dragon<\/a> to the International Space Station and the company is celebrating that feat with an epic new video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/videos.space.com\/m\/XiVbqpWC\/relive-spacex-crew-dragons-first-mission-in-highlight-reel?list=9wzCTV4g\" target=\"_blank\">The new video<\/a>, which SpaceX shared on YouTube and Twitter, shows the company\u2019s first Crew Dragon spacecraft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-launches-crew-dragon-test-flight.html\" target=\"_blank\">launched on the Demo-1 mission<\/a> from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission, an uncrewed test flight, launched a spacesuit-clad dummy named Ripley and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-left-celestial-buddy-earth-behind.html\" target=\"_blank\">adorable Celestial Buddy Earth plush toy<\/a> to the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago today, SpaceX took a giant leap forward for private spaceflight with the launch of its first Crew Dragon to the International Space Station and the company is celebrating that feat with an epic new video. The new video, which SpaceX shared on YouTube and Twitter, shows the company\u2019s first Crew Dragon spacecraft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}