{"id":11428,"date":"2014-05-30T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11428"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:28","slug":"spacex-unveils-first-commercial-capsule-capable-of-manned-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/spacex-unveils-first-commercial-capsule-capable-of-manned-flight","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX unveils first commercial capsule capable of manned flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/business\/20140529\/spacex-unveils-first-commercial-capsule-capable-of-manned-flight#author1\">Jordan England-Nelson<\/a>, Los Angeles Daily News<br \/>\n<br \/> The long-awaited presentation by Elon Musk, SpaceX\u2019s billionaire CEO and founder of Tesla Motors, showcased the 12-year-old company\u2019s engineering prowess with the flair of an Apple product release party.<\/p>\n<p>Starry-eyed engineers cheered and flashed their smartphone cameras inside SpaceX\u2019s Hawthorne factory as Musk took the stage in a crushed velvet blazer and a boy-band mic strapped to his ear.<\/p>\n<p>After a 10-second countdown, a curtain dropped behind Musk to reveal the gumdrop-shaped Dragon V2, a seven-passenger capsule that could begin shuttling astronauts to the ISS as early as 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/business\/20140529\/spacex-unveils-first-commercial-capsule-capable-of-manned-flight\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jordan England-Nelson, Los Angeles Daily News The long-awaited presentation by Elon Musk, SpaceX\u2019s billionaire CEO and founder of Tesla Motors, showcased the 12-year-old company\u2019s engineering prowess with the flair of an Apple product release party. Starry-eyed engineers cheered and flashed their smartphone cameras inside SpaceX\u2019s Hawthorne factory as Musk took the stage in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11428","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47063,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11428\/revisions\/47063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}