{"id":126503,"date":"2021-08-19T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T04:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/spacex-set-to-end-longest-gap-between-falcon-launches-in-two-years"},"modified":"2021-08-19T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T04:22:53","slug":"spacex-set-to-end-longest-gap-between-falcon-launches-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/spacex-set-to-end-longest-gap-between-falcon-launches-in-two-years","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX set to end longest gap between Falcon launches in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-set-to-end-longest-gap-between-falcon-launches-in-two-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has confirmed that SpaceX\u2019s next Falcon 9 launch is now scheduled to occur no earlier than 3:37 am EDT (07:37 UTC) on Saturday, August 28th.<\/p>\n<p>Known as CRS-23, the cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is noteworthy for two major reasons. Most importantly, CRS-23 will mark SpaceX\u2019s first-ever reuse of an upgraded Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft. Simultaneously, that reuse milestone will coincide with another when SpaceX smashes its internal record for orbital spacecraft turnaround later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Second, much to the surprise of virtually everyone watching from the sidelines, SpaceX\u2019s last launch occurred on June 30th \u2013 in the first half of 2021. One step removed from the mission\u2019s technical specifics, CRS-23 will, in other words, also be SpaceX\u2019s first launch in almost two months \u2013 a gap not seen in two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has confirmed that SpaceX\u2019s next Falcon 9 launch is now scheduled to occur no earlier than 3:37 am EDT (07:37 UTC) on Saturday, August 28th. Known as CRS-23, the cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is noteworthy for two major reasons. Most importantly, CRS-23 will mark SpaceX\u2019s first-ever reuse of an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126503","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}