{"id":129645,"date":"2021-10-28T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/l600-and-counting-esa-astronaut-to-be-600th-person-in-space-on-spacex-crew-3-launch"},"modified":"2021-10-28T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:24:14","slug":"l600-and-counting-esa-astronaut-to-be-600th-person-in-space-on-spacex-crew-3-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/l600-and-counting-esa-astronaut-to-be-600th-person-in-space-on-spacex-crew-3-launch","title":{"rendered":"L+600 and counting: ESA astronaut to be 600th person in space on SpaceX Crew-3 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/l600-and-counting-esa-astronaut-to-be-600th-person-in-space-on-spacex-crew-3-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was the lucky one to get the round number.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A German astronaut is set to become the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/news\/news-102621a-600th-person-in-space.html\" target=\"_blank\">600th person to enter space<\/a> and he will do so flying with a U.S. astronaut who once came close to being number 500.<\/p>\n<p>Matthias Maurer with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22562-european-space-agency.html\">European Space Agency<\/a> (ESA) will gain the distinction of being the sexcentenarian space traveler when he launches to the International Space Station as a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/news\/news-100821a-spacex-crew3-endurance-dragon-name.html\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX\u2019s Crew-3 mission<\/a>, currently scheduled for early Sunday morning (Oct. 31). Maurer is one of three first-time fliers on the four-person crew, including NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Kayla Barron, but he was identified by NASA as the designated milestone maker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was the lucky one to get the round number. A German astronaut is set to become the 600th person to enter space and he will do so flying with a U.S. astronaut who once came close to being number 500. Matthias Maurer with the European Space Agency (ESA) will gain the distinction of being [\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-129645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129645","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=129645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}