{"id":131915,"date":"2021-12-07T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-will-launch-to-space-station-early-wednesday-watch-it-live"},"modified":"2021-12-07T09:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:22:47","slug":"japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-will-launch-to-space-station-early-wednesday-watch-it-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-will-launch-to-space-station-early-wednesday-watch-it-live","title":{"rendered":"Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will launch to space station early Wednesday: Watch it live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21X5lGlDOfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is scheduled for 2:38 a.m. EST (0738 GMT) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Two space tourists will launch toward the International Space Station on Wednesday (Dec. 8), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-space-tourist-flight-ready\"> Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa<\/a>, video producer Yozo Hirano and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin is set to launch at 2:38 a.m. EST (0738 GMT or 1:38 p.m. local time) Wednesday from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liftoff is scheduled for 2:38 a.m. EST (0738 GMT) on Wednesday. Two space tourists will launch toward the International Space Station on Wednesday (Dec. 8), and you can watch the action live. A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, video producer Yozo Hirano and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin is set to launch at 2:38 [\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-131915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131915","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=131915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}