{"id":122199,"date":"2021-05-02T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/spacex-returns-4-astronauts-to-earth-with-rare-night-splashdown"},"modified":"2021-05-09T05:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:23:17","slug":"spacex-returns-4-astronauts-to-earth-with-rare-night-splashdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/spacex-returns-4-astronauts-to-earth-with-rare-night-splashdown","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth with rare night splashdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-returns-4-astronauts-to-earth-with-rare-night-splashdown.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those of you enrolled in our frequent flyer program, you\u2019ve earned 68 million miles on this voyage,\u201d SpaceX\u2019s Mission Control radioed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/nasa-spacex-launch-astronauts-reused-rocket-international-space-station-n1265032\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> safely returned four astronauts from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/astronauts-dock-international-space-station-aboard-spacex-endeavour-n1265181\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station<\/a> on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/one-small-step-how-apollo-8-became-our-first-true-ncna945961\" target=\"_blank\">Apollo 8 moonshot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just before 3 a.m., ending the second astronaut flight for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/tv\/saturday-night-live-announces-elon-musk-will-host-may-8-n1265194\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> company.<\/p>\n<p>It was an express trip home, lasting just 6\u00a01\/2 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor those of you enrolled in our frequent flyer program, you\u2019ve earned 68 million miles on this voyage,\u201d SpaceX\u2019s Mission Control radioed. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The Dragon capsule parachuted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122199","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\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122419,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122199\/revisions\/122419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}