{"id":107956,"date":"2020-05-31T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/for-russia-spacex-success-is-wakeup-call"},"modified":"2020-05-31T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T17:42:34","slug":"for-russia-spacex-success-is-wakeup-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/for-russia-spacex-success-is-wakeup-call","title":{"rendered":"For Russia, SpaceX success is \u2018wakeup call\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-russia-spacex-success-is-wakeup-call.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by US company SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space<\/a> agency congratulated the United States and Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX on the first crewed flight ever by a private company, but experts said the launch should be a wakeup call for Roscosmos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe success of the mission will provide us with additional opportunities that will benefit the whole international programme,\u201d cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, Roscosmos executive director for crewed space programmes, said in a brief video address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by US company SpaceX. The Russian space agency congratulated the United States and Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX on the first crewed flight ever by a private company, but experts said the launch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107956","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}