{"id":117772,"date":"2020-12-30T01:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/three-astronauts-assigned-to-crew-dragon-mission-in-late-2021"},"modified":"2020-12-30T01:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T09:22:25","slug":"three-astronauts-assigned-to-crew-dragon-mission-in-late-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/three-astronauts-assigned-to-crew-dragon-mission-in-late-2021","title":{"rendered":"Three astronauts assigned to Crew Dragon mission in late 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/three-astronauts-assigned-to-crew-dragon-mission-in-late-2021.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Rookie NASA astronaut Raja Chari \u2014 a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot \u2014 veteran physician-astronaut Tom Marshburn, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer have been assigned to fly to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship in the fall of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth crew member will be added to the mission at a later date, following a review by NASA and its international partners, the U.S. space agency said in a Dec. 14 announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Chari, Marshburn, Maurer, and the fourth crew member will launch on the third operational flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. The mission, designated Crew-3, will launch in the fall of 2021 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and last into the spring of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like. Rookie NASA astronaut Raja Chari \u2014 a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot \u2014 veteran physician-astronaut Tom Marshburn, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer have been assigned to fly to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship in the fall of 2021. A fourth crew member will be added to [\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-117772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117772","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=117772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}