{"id":115639,"date":"2020-11-09T05:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/astronauts-arrive-at-launch-site-for-2nd-spacex-crew-flight"},"modified":"2020-11-09T05:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:24:03","slug":"astronauts-arrive-at-launch-site-for-2nd-spacex-crew-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/astronauts-arrive-at-launch-site-for-2nd-spacex-crew-flight","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts arrive at launch site for 2nd SpaceX crew flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronauts-arrive-at-launch-site-for-2nd-spacex-crew-flight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Four astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Sunday for SpaceX\u2019s second crew launch, coming up next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>For NASA, it marks the long-awaited start of regular crew rotations at the International Space Station, with private companies providing the lifts. There will be double the number of astronauts as the test flight earlier this year, and their mission will last a full six months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake: Every flight is a test flight when it comes to space travel. But it\u2019s also true that we need to routinely be able to go to the International Space Station,\u201d NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in welcoming the astronauts to Kennedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Four astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Sunday for SpaceX\u2019s second crew launch, coming up next weekend. For NASA, it marks the long-awaited start of regular crew rotations at the International Space Station, with private companies providing the lifts. There will be double the number of astronauts as the [\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-115639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115639","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=115639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}