{"id":129881,"date":"2021-11-02T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/this-astronaut-is-spending-his-spacex-launch-delay-cleaning-up-a-florida-beach"},"modified":"2021-11-02T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:22:20","slug":"this-astronaut-is-spending-his-spacex-launch-delay-cleaning-up-a-florida-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/this-astronaut-is-spending-his-spacex-launch-delay-cleaning-up-a-florida-beach","title":{"rendered":"This astronaut is spending his SpaceX launch delay cleaning up a Florida beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-astronaut-is-spending-his-spacex-launch-delay-cleaning-up-a-florida-beach.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Clean oceans, clean space,\u2019 is what was in Matthias Maurer\u2019s mind while filling bags on the beach.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A German astronaut is showing his love for Earth during a few extra days on the planet\u2019s surface before his first space mission.<\/p>\n<p>Matthias Maurer, who is waiting with the rest of Crew-3 team for a delayed ride to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16748-international-space-station.html\">International Space Station<\/a>, has spent part of his quarantine picking up trash on the Florida beach, within range of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a> launch site at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The mission, which will launch four astronauts to the station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket, will launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-3-launch-astronaut-medical-issue-delay\">no earlier than Saturday<\/a> (Nov. 6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Clean oceans, clean space,\u2019 is what was in Matthias Maurer\u2019s mind while filling bags on the beach. A German astronaut is showing his love for Earth during a few extra days on the planet\u2019s surface before his first space mission. Matthias Maurer, who is waiting with the rest of Crew-3 team for a delayed ride [\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-129881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129881","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=129881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}