{"id":137944,"date":"2022-04-10T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-has-a-very-human-side-to-him-according-to-a-nasa-astronaut-who-completed-a-spacex-mission"},"modified":"2022-04-10T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T23:03:16","slug":"elon-musk-has-a-very-human-side-to-him-according-to-a-nasa-astronaut-who-completed-a-spacex-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-has-a-very-human-side-to-him-according-to-a-nasa-astronaut-who-completed-a-spacex-mission","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk has a \u2018very human side to him,\u2019 according to a NASA astronaut who completed a SpaceX mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-has-a-very-human-side-to-him-according-to-a-nasa-astronaut-who-completed-a-spacex-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut Doug Hurley reminisced on what it was like working with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk before he flew on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-astronauts-doug-hurley-bob-behnken-biography-spacex-demo2-2020-5?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">historic flight to space and back in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/entertainment\/elon-musk-human-side-nasa-astronaut-doug-hurley-netflix-return-to-space\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">interview with Fox News<\/a>, Hurley spoke about his impressions of Musk, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-richard-branson-space-race-climate-change-politics-2021-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">billionaire space race<\/a>, and a new Netflix documentary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/title\/81111324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">\u201cReturn to Space\u201d<\/a> which follows Hurley\u2019s journey and that of fellow astronaut Bob Behnken as they embarked on the first human SpaceX mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2020, Musk and SpaceX made history after the company successfully launched two astronauts into space aboard a Crew Dragon spaceship. Shortly after, the astronauts\u2019 ship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-astronauts-connect-spacex-crew-dragon-spaceship-international-space-station-2020-5?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">docked at the International Space Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Doug Hurley reminisced on what it was like working with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk before he flew on a historic flight to space and back in 2020. In an interview with Fox News, Hurley spoke about his impressions of Musk, the billionaire space race, and a new Netflix documentary, \u201cReturn to Space\u201d which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137944","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=137944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}