{"id":107248,"date":"2020-05-18T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/how-spacexs-crew-dragon-demo-2-mission-will-work-in-13-steps"},"modified":"2020-05-18T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:22:21","slug":"how-spacexs-crew-dragon-demo-2-mission-will-work-in-13-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/how-spacexs-crew-dragon-demo-2-mission-will-work-in-13-steps","title":{"rendered":"How SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission will work in 13 steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-spacexs-crew-dragon-demo-2-mission-will-work-in-13-steps2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a step-by-step explainer of what will happen during the Demo-2 mission, from prelaunch preparations through the astronauts\u2019 return to Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In photos: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-demo-2-mission-photos.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SpaceX\u2019s Demo-2 Crew Dragon test flight with astronauts<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While NASA astronauts heading to their rockets on the day of a launch have traditionally traveled to their launchpads in a retro-style \u201cAstrovan,\u201d Demo-2 astronauts Doug Hurley (left) and Bob Behnken will be rolling up to their Falcon 9 rocket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-tesla-modelx-astrovan.html\" target=\"_blank\">in shiny Tesla Model X sports cars<\/a>. This comes as no surprise to SpaceX fans; Elon Musk, the founder of both SpaceX and Tesla, famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starman-tesla-falcon-heavy-first-orbit-sun.html\" target=\"_blank\">launched a cherry-red Tesla Roadster<\/a> into space on a Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a step-by-step explainer of what will happen during the Demo-2 mission, from prelaunch preparations through the astronauts\u2019 return to Earth. In photos: SpaceX\u2019s Demo-2 Crew Dragon test flight with astronauts While NASA astronauts heading to their rockets on the day of a launch have traditionally traveled to their launchpads in a retro-style \u201cAstrovan,\u201d Demo-2 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107248","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=107248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}