{"id":107547,"date":"2020-05-23T20:45:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nasas-newest-test-pilots-are-veteran-astronauts-friends"},"modified":"2020-05-23T20:45:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T03:45:21","slug":"nasas-newest-test-pilots-are-veteran-astronauts-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nasas-newest-test-pilots-are-veteran-astronauts-friends","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s newest test pilots are veteran astronauts, friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-newest-test-pilots-are-veteran-astronauts-friends2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX\u2019s brand new rocketship are classmates and friends, veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of young sons.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they will end a nine-year drought for NASA when they blast into orbit next week from Florida\u2019s Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Marine Col. Doug Hurley will be in charge of launch and landing, a fitting assignment for the pilot of NASA\u2019s last space shuttle flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX\u2019s brand new rocketship are classmates and friends, veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of young sons. Together, they will end a nine-year drought for NASA when they blast into orbit next week from Florida\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. Retired Marine Col. [\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-107547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107547","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=107547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}