{"id":127797,"date":"2021-09-18T04:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/how-to-see-spacexs-inspiration4-spacecraft-in-the-night-sky"},"modified":"2021-09-18T04:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:23:14","slug":"how-to-see-spacexs-inspiration4-spacecraft-in-the-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/how-to-see-spacexs-inspiration4-spacecraft-in-the-night-sky","title":{"rendered":"How to see SpaceX\u2019s Inspiration4 spacecraft in the night sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inspiration4 Crew Dragon, evening of 16 September 2021\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/606853150?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Four private astronauts are currently circling the globe in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, and you can see the capsule from Earth \u2014 if you\u2019re in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>The Crew Dragon launched into space on Wednesday (Sept. 15), carrying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/inspiration4-spacex.html\">Inspiration4<\/a> mission on a three-day orbital trip. It is currently traveling around Earth in a nearly circular orbit up to 367 miles (590 kilometers) above our planet, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1438563412624097286\" target=\"_blank\">according to SpaceX<\/a>, and completes an orbit about every hour and a half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four private astronauts are currently circling the globe in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, and you can see the capsule from Earth \u2014 if you\u2019re in the right place at the right time. The Crew Dragon launched into space on Wednesday (Sept. 15), carrying the Inspiration4 mission on a three-day orbital trip. It is currently [\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-127797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127797","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=127797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}