{"id":122221,"date":"2021-05-02T21:24:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T04:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nasa-spacexs-crew-dragon-splashdown-goes-safely-watch-how-it-happened"},"modified":"2021-05-02T21:24:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T04:24:44","slug":"nasa-spacexs-crew-dragon-splashdown-goes-safely-watch-how-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nasa-spacexs-crew-dragon-splashdown-goes-safely-watch-how-it-happened","title":{"rendered":"NASA-SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon splashdown goes safely\u2014watch how it happened"},"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\/fZrSnM2xZzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude17<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Four astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) came back to Earth on Sunday in what was the first nighttime splashdown by a U.S. crew since the Apollo moonshot in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Six months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/spacex\">SpaceX<\/a> launched four astronauts\u2014Americans Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker along with Soichi Noguchi, from Japan\u2019s space agency\u2014into space aboard a Crew Dragon capsule, named <em>Resilience<\/em>, on a Falcon 9 rocket from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/nasa\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>After a journey lasting over six hours, they returned this weekend in the same capsule, which parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida at 2.56 a.m. ET. It marked the end of what SpaceX said was its \u201cfirst six-month operational mission\u201d to the ISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude17 Four astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) came back to Earth on Sunday in what was the first nighttime splashdown by a U.S. crew since the Apollo moonshot in 1968. Six months ago, Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX launched four astronauts\u2014Americans Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker along with Soichi Noguchi, from Japan\u2019s space agency\u2014into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122221","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\/122221","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}