{"id":129024,"date":"2021-10-15T10:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/astronauts-in-final-training-for-flight-on-brand-new-spacex-crew-capsule"},"modified":"2021-10-15T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T17:23:31","slug":"astronauts-in-final-training-for-flight-on-brand-new-spacex-crew-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/astronauts-in-final-training-for-flight-on-brand-new-spacex-crew-capsule","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts in final training for flight on brand new SpaceX crew capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronauts-in-final-training-for-flight-on-brand-new-spacex-crew-capsule2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The four astronauts set to blast off Oct. 30 to the International Space Station visited Cape Canaveral over the weekend for a test run inside SpaceX\u2019s new Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft, one of the last training events before they return to Florida on launch week.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Raja Chari, a U.S. Air Force colonel, leads NASA\u2019s Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station. Chari and the mission\u2019s other three astronauts visited Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday for the Crew Equipment Interface Test, a customary pre-flight training event officials equate to a \u201ctest drive\u201d or \u201cwalk through\u201d of the spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The four-person crew will launch on the third NASA crew rotation flight to the space station, and the fifth human flight on a Crew Dragon spacecraft overall, including a 2020 test flight and the all-civilian Inspiration4 mission last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four astronauts set to blast off Oct. 30 to the International Space Station visited Cape Canaveral over the weekend for a test run inside SpaceX\u2019s new Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft, one of the last training events before they return to Florida on launch week. Commander Raja Chari, a U.S. Air Force colonel, leads NASA\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129024","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=129024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}