{"id":115752,"date":"2020-11-11T20:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T04:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/japanese-astronaut-hopes-upcoming-mission-will-pave-way-for-new-future"},"modified":"2020-11-11T20:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T04:22:44","slug":"japanese-astronaut-hopes-upcoming-mission-will-pave-way-for-new-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/japanese-astronaut-hopes-upcoming-mission-will-pave-way-for-new-future","title":{"rendered":"Japanese astronaut hopes upcoming mission will pave way for \u2018new future\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-astronaut-hopes-upcoming-mission-will-pave-way-for-new-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Admitting he was both nervous and excited about the upcoming launch aboard the Crew Dragon capsule on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the 55-year-old said, \u201cThere are risks and a fear of failure when challenging oneself but I believe the benefits far outweigh that fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noguchi will be among four astronauts, including crew commander Michael Hopkins, aboard the Crew Dragon capsule to be launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He juxtaposed the mission to the Japanese hit manga and anime series \u201cDemon Slayer,\u201d in which astronauts use and maximize their \u201cindividual strengths\u201d toward a \u201ccommon goal.\u201d The series follows the story of a boy who, along with his comrades, fights human-eating demons after his family is killed by them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admitting he was both nervous and excited about the upcoming launch aboard the Crew Dragon capsule on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the 55-year-old said, \u201cThere are risks and a fear of failure when challenging oneself but I believe the benefits far outweigh that fear.\u201d Noguchi will be among four astronauts, including crew commander Michael [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115752","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}