{"id":107646,"date":"2020-05-25T20:42:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nasa-and-spacex-confirm-spacexs-first-ever-astronaut-launch-is-a-go"},"modified":"2020-05-25T20:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:42:26","slug":"nasa-and-spacex-confirm-spacexs-first-ever-astronaut-launch-is-a-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nasa-and-spacex-confirm-spacexs-first-ever-astronaut-launch-is-a-go","title":{"rendered":"NASA and SpaceX confirm SpaceX\u2019s first ever astronaut launch is a \u2018go\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-and-spacex-confirm-spacexs-first-ever-astronaut-launch-is-a-go.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very excited about this!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >NASA<\/a> and SpaceX are closer than ever to a moment both have been preparing for since the beginning of the Commercial Crew program in 2010. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/space-exploration-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >SpaceX\u2019s<\/a> Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft are now set to fly with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken onboard, making a trip to the International Space Station, and both the agency and SpaceX announced today that they have officially passed the final flight readiness review, meaning everything is now a \u2018go\u2019 for launch.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Kathy Leuders during a press conference on Monday, everything went well with all pre-launch flight checks thus far, including a full-length static test fire of the Falcon 9\u2019s engines, and a dress rehearsal of all launch preparation including strapping Hurley and Behnken into the rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The only remaining major hurdle for <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/space-exploration-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >SpaceX<\/a> and NASA now is the weather, which is currently only looking around 40% favorable for a launch attempt on schedule for Wednesday, May 27 at 4:33 PM EDT, though during today\u2019s press conference officials noted it is actually trending upwards as of today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very excited about this! NASA and SpaceX are closer than ever to a moment both have been preparing for since the beginning of the Commercial Crew program in 2010. SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft are now set to fly with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken onboard, making a trip to the [\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-107646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107646","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=107646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}