{"id":107452,"date":"2020-05-22T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T16:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-astronauts-arrive-for-first-home-launch-in-a-decade"},"modified":"2020-05-23T07:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:10:58","slug":"spacex-astronauts-arrive-for-first-home-launch-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-astronauts-arrive-for-first-home-launch-in-a-decade","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX astronauts arrive for first home launch in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-astronauts-arrive-for-first-home-launch-in-a-decade2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The two astronauts who will end a nine-year launch drought for NASA arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, exactly one week before their historic SpaceX flight.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time a private company, rather than a national government, sends astronauts into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>NASA test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken flew to Florida from their home base in Houston aboard one of the space agency\u2019s jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The two astronauts who will end a nine-year launch drought for NASA arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, exactly one week before their historic SpaceX flight. It will be the first time a private company, rather than a national government, sends astronauts into orbit. NASA test pilots Doug Hurley [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107452","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=107452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107501,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107452\/revisions\/107501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}