{"id":132944,"date":"2021-12-23T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spacex-dragon-cargo-ship-delivers-christmas-presents-and-supplies-to-space-station"},"modified":"2021-12-23T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T22:23:25","slug":"spacex-dragon-cargo-ship-delivers-christmas-presents-and-supplies-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spacex-dragon-cargo-ship-delivers-christmas-presents-and-supplies-to-space-station","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivers Christmas presents (and supplies) to space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-dragon-cargo-ship-delivers-christmas-presents-and-supplies-to-space-station3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A turkey dinner and presents arrived in time for the holidays.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 A SpaceX Dragon capsule arrived at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16748-international-space-station.html\">International Space Station<\/a> early Wednesday (Dec. 22), carrying with it a holiday haul of science gear and Christmas treats for the astronauts living on the orbital outpost.<\/p>\n<p>The autonomous Dragon resupply ship docked itself at the orbital outpost at 3:41 a.m. EST (0841 GMT), ahead of its planned 4:30 a.m. docking time. It parked itself at the space-facing port on the station\u2019s Harmony module, with NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn monitoring the docking from inside the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A turkey dinner and presents arrived in time for the holidays. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 A SpaceX Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station early Wednesday (Dec. 22), carrying with it a holiday haul of science gear and Christmas treats for the astronauts living on the orbital outpost. The autonomous Dragon resupply ship docked [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132944","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=132944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}