{"id":128863,"date":"2021-10-11T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/spacex-crew-3-capsule-name-launch-date-and-astronauts-for-next-mission"},"modified":"2021-10-11T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T01:22:17","slug":"spacex-crew-3-capsule-name-launch-date-and-astronauts-for-next-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/spacex-crew-3-capsule-name-launch-date-and-astronauts-for-next-mission","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Crew-3 capsule name, launch date, and astronauts for next mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-crew-3-capsule-name-launch-date-and-astronauts-for-next-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s first all-civilian mission to orbit was a success. Here\u2019s what comes next.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2021\/10\/08\/astronauts-choose-endurance-as-name-for-new-spacex-crew-capsule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><em>SpaceflightNow<\/em><\/a> reported that NASA\u2019s upcoming crewed mission to the International Space Station would use a new Crew Dragon capsule. The mission, set for October 30 will feature a capsule named <em>Endurance<\/em> by the four-person crew. The news means that the crew won\u2019t have to wait for SpaceX to refurbish one of its other two capsules.<\/p>\n<p>That means the crew will take off less than two months after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/inspiration4-incredible-video\">Inspiration4 mission<\/a>, the first all-civilian mission to orbit. On September 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/commercialcrew\/2021\/09\/30\/nasa-spacex-adjust-next-space-station-crew-rotation-launch-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">NASA announced<\/a> that Crew-3 would launch no earlier than 2:43 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday, October 30. It will be SpaceX\u2019s fourth crewed mission for NASA and its fifth crewed mission overall.<\/p>\n<p>The plans show SpaceX is not planning to stand still. The Inspiration4 mission brought newfound attention to the company, thanks in part to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/title\/81441273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">five-part Netflix documentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s first all-civilian mission to orbit was a success. Here\u2019s what comes next. Last week, SpaceflightNow reported that NASA\u2019s upcoming crewed mission to the International Space Station would use a new Crew Dragon capsule. The mission, set for October 30 will feature a capsule named Endurance by the four-person crew. The news means that the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128863","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}