{"id":106584,"date":"2020-05-05T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-crew-dragon-trunk-secured-to-spacecraft-for-demo-2"},"modified":"2020-05-05T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T03:53:07","slug":"spacex-crew-dragon-trunk-secured-to-spacecraft-for-demo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-crew-dragon-trunk-secured-to-spacecraft-for-demo-2","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Crew Dragon Trunk Secured to Spacecraft for Demo-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-crew-dragon-trunk-secured-to-spacecraft-for-demo-2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/commercialcrew\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2020\/05\/Demo-2_CrewDragon_Trunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-crew-dragon-trunk-secured-to-spacecraft-for-demo-2.jpg\" alt=\"The SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk was secured to the spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, in preparation for launch of NASA\u0081fs SpaceX Demo-2 mission.\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\"><\/a>The SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk was secured to the spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, in preparation for launch of NASA\u0081fs SpaceX Demo-2 mission.<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly to the International Space Station aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center\u2019s Launch Complex 39A is slated for May 27 at 4:32 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>Demo-2 will serve as an end-to-end test of SpaceX\u2019s crew transportation system, paving the way for NASA to certify the system for regular crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory as a part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program. NASA\u2019s SpaceX Demo-2 mission will be the first crewed flight to launch from U.S. soil since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk was secured to the spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, in preparation for launch of NASA\u0081fs SpaceX Demo-2 mission. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly to the International Space Station aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket. [\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-106584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106584","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=106584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106602,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106584\/revisions\/106602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}