{"id":105604,"date":"2020-04-17T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/nasa-to-launch-astronauts-from-u-s-soil-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade-with-help-from-spacex"},"modified":"2020-04-17T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:42:52","slug":"nasa-to-launch-astronauts-from-u-s-soil-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade-with-help-from-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/nasa-to-launch-astronauts-from-u-s-soil-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade-with-help-from-spacex","title":{"rendered":"NASA to launch astronauts from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade with help from SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-to-launch-astronauts-from-u-s-soil-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade-with-help-from-spacex.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27 for the launch of Demo-2, the first launch of NASA astronauts from the U.S. since 2011 and the first crewed launch for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/100987750\">Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> space company.<\/p>\n<p>As its name implies, Demo-2 will be the second time the company launches its Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. But, unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/28\/spacex-demo-1-first-nasa-commercial-crew-launch.html\">Demo-1 last year<\/a>, this time two astronauts will be on board \u2013 a pair that will be the first NASA astronauts to launch from the U.S. since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27 for the launch of Demo-2, the first launch of NASA astronauts from the U.S. since 2011 and the first crewed launch for Elon Musk\u2019s space company. As its name implies, Demo-2 will be the second time the company launches its Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105604","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=105604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}