{"id":110102,"date":"2020-07-17T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T18:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasa-plans-to-return-its-astronauts-in-spacexs-crew-dragon-spacecraft-on-aug-2"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T18:44:30","slug":"nasa-plans-to-return-its-astronauts-in-spacexs-crew-dragon-spacecraft-on-aug-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasa-plans-to-return-its-astronauts-in-spacexs-crew-dragon-spacecraft-on-aug-2","title":{"rendered":"NASA plans to return its astronauts in SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft on Aug. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-plans-to-return-its-astronauts-in-spacexs-crew-dragon-spacecraft-on-aug-22.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is currently planning to return astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth on board SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft in about two weeks, the space agency told CNBC on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft, which the astronauts named Endeavour, is scheduled to splash down in the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 2 at about 3 p.m. ET, according to NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center public affairs officer Kyle Herring.<\/p>\n<p>Herring noted that the departure time from the International Space Station \u201cis a bit of a moving target,\u201d but said in an email that the spacecraft is scheduled to un-dock at about 8 p.m. ET on Aug. 1. NASA will look more closely at the weather forecasts for where the spacecraft might splash down after the astronauts perform a spacewalk next week. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine also confirmed those dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is currently planning to return astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth on board SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft in about two weeks, the space agency told CNBC on Friday. The spacecraft, which the astronauts named Endeavour, is scheduled to splash down in the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 2 at about 3 p.m. ET, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110102","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=110102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}