{"id":121769,"date":"2021-04-20T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasa-spacex-declare-crew-2-astronaut-mission-go-for-thursday-launch"},"modified":"2021-04-20T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:22:19","slug":"nasa-spacex-declare-crew-2-astronaut-mission-go-for-thursday-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasa-spacex-declare-crew-2-astronaut-mission-go-for-thursday-launch","title":{"rendered":"NASA, SpaceX declare Crew-2 astronaut mission \u2018go\u2019 for Thursday launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-spacex-declare-crew-2-astronaut-mission-go-for-thursday-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is scheduled for Thursday, April 22.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 NASA has given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> the official go-ahead for the launch of its next crew mission to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16748-international-space-station.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That mission, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/news\/live\/spacex-crew-dragon-mission-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Crew-2<\/a>, will blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:11 a.m. EST (1011 GMT) on Thursday morning (April 22) from NASA\u2019s historic Pad 39A and Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will be the second flight of this particular Crew Dragon. The capsule, named \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-demo-2-endeavour.html\" target=\"_blank\">Endeavour<\/a>,\u201d first carried NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to and from the space station last year for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-demo-2-test-flight-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\">Demo-2<\/a> test flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liftoff is scheduled for Thursday, April 22. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 NASA has given SpaceX the official go-ahead for the launch of its next crew mission to the International Space Station. That mission, called Crew-2, will blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:11 a.m. EST (1011 GMT) on Thursday morning (April 22) [\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-121769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121769","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=121769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}