{"id":130296,"date":"2021-11-09T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/spacex-dragon-capsule-with-crew-2-astronauts-splashes-down-in-gulf-of-mexico"},"modified":"2021-11-09T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:43:22","slug":"spacex-dragon-capsule-with-crew-2-astronauts-splashes-down-in-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/spacex-dragon-capsule-with-crew-2-astronauts-splashes-down-in-gulf-of-mexico","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Dragon capsule with Crew-2 astronauts splashes down in Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-dragon-capsule-with-crew-2-astronauts-splashes-down-in-gulf-of-mexico2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The four Crew-2 astronauts returned to Earth after 199 days in space.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 After six months in space, SpaceX\u2019s Crew-2 astronauts returned to Earth late Monday (Nov. 8), splashing down off the Florida coast to end the private company\u2019s second long-duration mission.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Crew-2 mission for NASA splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico just south of Pensacola, Florida, at 10:33 p.m. EST (0333 GMT on Nov. 9), with a recovery ship swiftly retrieving the spaceflyers\u2019 Crew Dragon capsule from the sea. Their return wrapped up a six-month trip to the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four Crew-2 astronauts returned to Earth after 199 days in space. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 After six months in space, SpaceX\u2019s Crew-2 astronauts returned to Earth late Monday (Nov. 8), splashing down off the Florida coast to end the private company\u2019s second long-duration mission. SpaceX\u2019s Crew-2 mission for NASA splashed down safely in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130296","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}