{"id":106454,"date":"2020-05-03T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-nasa-hold-press-conference-historic-astronaut-launch-clears-final-hurdles-before-readiness"},"modified":"2020-05-03T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T16:33:28","slug":"spacex-nasa-hold-press-conference-historic-astronaut-launch-clears-final-hurdles-before-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-nasa-hold-press-conference-historic-astronaut-launch-clears-final-hurdles-before-readiness","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, NASA hold press conference, historic astronaut launch clears final hurdles before readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-nasa-hold-press-conference-historic-astronaut-launch-clears-final-hurdles-before-readiness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With less than a month to go before the historic first crewed flight \u2013 and final human rating certification test \u2013 of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demonstration 2 mission, NASA and SpaceX jointly held a full day of pre-mission press conferences on Friday, May 1st. Throughout the day many minor, but crucial, details were revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Two primary technical concerns remained prior to Crew Dragon\u2019s debut astronaut mission- the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-last-parachute-tests-astronaut-launch\/\">final drop test of the Crew Dragon Mark III parachutes<\/a> and NASA\u2019s clearance of SpaceX\u2019s resolution of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-rocket-engine-failure-nasa-astronaut-launch-impact\/\">in-flight engine-out anomaly<\/a> suffered during the ascent phase of a previous Starlink mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With less than a month to go before the historic first crewed flight \u2013 and final human rating certification test \u2013 of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demonstration 2 mission, NASA and SpaceX jointly held a full day of pre-mission press conferences on Friday, May 1st. Throughout the day many minor, but crucial, details were revealed. [\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-106454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106454","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=106454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}