{"id":126921,"date":"2021-08-29T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/spacex-launches-ants-avocados-robotic-arm-to-space-station"},"modified":"2021-08-29T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T23:22:18","slug":"spacex-launches-ants-avocados-robotic-arm-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/spacex-launches-ants-avocados-robotic-arm-to-space-station","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches ants, avocados, robotic arm to space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-launches-ants-avocados-robotic-arm-to-space-station2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 A SpaceX shipment of ants, avocados, and a human-sized robotic arm rocketed toward the International Space Station on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery \u2014 due to arrive Monday \u2014 is the company\u2019s 23rd for NASA in just under a decade.<\/p>\n<p>A recycled Falcon rocket blasted into the predawn sky from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. After hoisting the Dragon capsule, the first-stage booster landed upright on SpaceX\u2019s newest ocean platform, named \u201cA Shortfall of Gravitas.\u201d SpaceX founder Elon Musk continued his tradition of naming the booster-recovery vessels in tribute to the late science fiction writer Iain Banks and his Culture series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 A SpaceX shipment of ants, avocados, and a human-sized robotic arm rocketed toward the International Space Station on Sunday. The delivery \u2014 due to arrive Monday \u2014 is the company\u2019s 23rd for NASA in just under a decade. A recycled Falcon rocket blasted into the predawn sky from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126921","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=126921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}