{"id":110339,"date":"2020-07-23T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-first-operational-commercial-crew-launch"},"modified":"2020-07-23T00:02:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:02:30","slug":"nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-first-operational-commercial-crew-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-first-operational-commercial-crew-launch","title":{"rendered":"NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to First Operational Commercial Crew Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-first-operational-commercial-crew-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Media accreditation now is open for NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\">International Space Station<\/a> \u2013 the first operational flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket after certification by NASA for regular flights to the space station.<\/p>\n<p>The launch is targeted for no earlier than late-September, following a successful return from the space station and evaluation of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight with NASA astronauts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/robert-l-behnken\/biography\">Robert Behnken<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/douglas-g-hurley\">Douglas Hurley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crew Dragon commander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/michael-s-hopkins\/biography\">Michael Hopkins<\/a>, pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/victor-j-glover\/biography\">Victor Glover<\/a>, and mission specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/shannon-walker\/biography\">Shannon Walker<\/a> \u2013 all of NASA \u2013 along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/iss.jaxa.jp\/en\/astro\/biographies\/noguchi\/index.html\">Soichi Noguchi<\/a> will launch on the Crew-1 mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media accreditation now is open for NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station \u2013 the first operational flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket after certification by NASA for regular flights to the space station. The launch is targeted for no earlier than late-September, following a successful return [\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-110339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110339","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=110339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}