{"id":130530,"date":"2021-11-13T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/spacex-is-beginning-to-get-the-hang-of-human-spaceflight"},"modified":"2021-11-13T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T16:24:29","slug":"spacex-is-beginning-to-get-the-hang-of-human-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/spacex-is-beginning-to-get-the-hang-of-human-spaceflight","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX is beginning to get the hang of human spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-is-beginning-to-get-the-hang-of-human-spaceflight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crew Dragon resulted from a partnership between NASA and SpaceX over the last decade. Anticipating the space shuttle\u2019s retirement, NASA worked with SpaceX and Boeing to privately develop launch systems to carry astronauts into low Earth orbit. When the final contracts were signed in 2014, it was expected that SpaceX and Boeing would each fly one mission a year. Boeing, however, has run into technical challenges with the development of its Starliner spacecraft, so Crew Dragon has had to perform double duty from the start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re incredibly grateful with the partnership that we\u2019ve had,\u201d Kathy Lueders, chief of human spaceflight operations for NASA, said during a post-launch news conference of the NASA-SpaceX team. \u201cYou know, when I first started in commercial crew, six or seven years ago, it would have been a dream to me that we would have flown these four missions back to back. Because it\u2019s a really tough thing to do. So I\u2019m incredibly proud of this joint team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cadence is even more impressive considering that SpaceX also recently debuted an upgraded version of its Cargo Dragon spacecraft. Including crew and cargo missions, SpaceX has either launched or landed a Dragon spacecraft every month in 2021 except for February and March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crew Dragon resulted from a partnership between NASA and SpaceX over the last decade. Anticipating the space shuttle\u2019s retirement, NASA worked with SpaceX and Boeing to privately develop launch systems to carry astronauts into low Earth orbit. When the final contracts were signed in 2014, it was expected that SpaceX and Boeing would each fly [\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-130530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130530","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=130530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}