{"id":121619,"date":"2021-04-16T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/meet-crew-2-bound-astronauts-launching-aboard-spacexs-crew-dragon"},"modified":"2021-04-16T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:22:38","slug":"meet-crew-2-bound-astronauts-launching-aboard-spacexs-crew-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/meet-crew-2-bound-astronauts-launching-aboard-spacexs-crew-dragon","title":{"rendered":"Meet Crew-2: bound astronauts launching aboard SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21X5lGlDOfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Four veteran astronauts will launch to the International Space Station on Thursday (April 22) for SpaceX\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-2-astronauts-launching-april-2020\"> Crew-2<\/a> mission, the second operational commercial crew flight of SpaceX\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18852-spacex-dragon.html\">Crew Dragon spacecraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is set to blast off on April 22 from Pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:11 a.m. EDT (1011 GMT). And, if all goes as planned, Crew Dragon will dock with the orbital outpost less than 24 hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four veteran astronauts will launch to the International Space Station on Thursday (April 22) for SpaceX\u2019s Crew-2 mission, the second operational commercial crew flight of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission is set to blast off on April 22 from Pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:11 a.m. EDT (1011 GMT). [\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-121619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121619","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=121619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}