{"id":128683,"date":"2021-10-08T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/spacex-is-doubling-its-number-of-astronaut-carrying-spacecraft"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:23:04","slug":"spacex-is-doubling-its-number-of-astronaut-carrying-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/spacex-is-doubling-its-number-of-astronaut-carrying-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Is Doubling Its Number of Astronaut-Carrying Spacecraft"},"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\/KH1-MNixAC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is doubling the size of its fleet of astronaut-carrying spacecraft \u2014 as well as doubling the number of cargo-carrying ones \u2014 according to officials <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KH1-MNixAC4\" class=\"\">who spoke during a briefing<\/a> ahead of the space company\u2019s next crewed mission later this month.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a significant expansion that will widen SpaceX\u2019s already <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-signals-boeing-spacecraft\" class=\"\">sizeable head start<\/a> over the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, dubbed Crew-3, is set to launch on October 30. The astronauts on board will be flying to the International Space Station on board a brand new capsule, the third in the company\u2019s lineup, according to SpaceX Director of Dragon Mission Management Sarah Walker, who spoke at Wednesday\u2019s briefing. It will join the capsules Endeavor and Resilience, each of which have successfully carried astronauts into space on two occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is doubling the size of its fleet of astronaut-carrying spacecraft \u2014 as well as doubling the number of cargo-carrying ones \u2014 according to officials who spoke during a briefing ahead of the space company\u2019s next crewed mission later this month. It\u2019s a significant expansion that will widen SpaceX\u2019s already sizeable head start over the [\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-128683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128683","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=128683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}