{"id":110628,"date":"2020-07-29T20:04:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/spacex-nasa-watch-weather-for-historic-astronaut-splashdown-on-sunday"},"modified":"2020-07-29T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:04:23","slug":"spacex-nasa-watch-weather-for-historic-astronaut-splashdown-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/spacex-nasa-watch-weather-for-historic-astronaut-splashdown-on-sunday","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, NASA watch weather for historic astronaut splashdown on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-nasa-watch-weather-for-historic-astronaut-splashdown-on-sunday2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a> is ready to return its first NASA astronaut crew to Earth, but a potential tropical cyclone brewing in the Atlantic could cause delays.<\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18852-spacex-dragon.html\">Crew Dragon<\/a> spacecraft, called Endeavour, is scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 2). Its crew, NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/bob-behnken.html\">Bob Behnken<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/doug-hurley.html\">Doug Hurley<\/a>, is wrapping up a historic two-month test flight, the first orbital trip by astronauts on a commercial spacecraft. Their splashdown will also mark the first water landing by American astronauts since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/20833-apollo-soyuz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apollo-Soyuz mission<\/a> in July 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is ready to return its first NASA astronaut crew to Earth, but a potential tropical cyclone brewing in the Atlantic could cause delays. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, called Endeavour, is scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 2). Its crew, NASA\u2019s Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, is wrapping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110628","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=110628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}