{"id":138301,"date":"2022-04-19T07:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/spacexs-brand-new-dragon-spacecraft-freedom-arrives-at-nasas-kennedy-space-center"},"modified":"2022-04-19T07:02:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:02:57","slug":"spacexs-brand-new-dragon-spacecraft-freedom-arrives-at-nasas-kennedy-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/spacexs-brand-new-dragon-spacecraft-freedom-arrives-at-nasas-kennedy-space-center","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Brand-New Dragon Spacecraft \u201cFreedom\u201d Arrives at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-brand-new-dragon-spacecraft-freedom-arrives-at-nasas-kennedy-space-center.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceXs brand-new Dragon spacecraft \u2013 named \u201cFreedom\u201d by the Crew-4 astronauts \u2013 arrived at Kennedy Space Center\u2019s Launch Complex 39A on April 16, 2022, after making the journey from SpaceX\u2019s processing facility at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. After Dragon is mated to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the launch vehicle will roll out to the pad and be raised to the vertical launch position.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is scheduled for 5:26 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 23. <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/nasas-spacex-crew-4-mission-what-you-need-to-know\/\">NASA\u2019s Crew-4 mission<\/a> is the fourth crew rotation flight on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines will serve as mission commander and pilot, respectively, and NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, will join as mission specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceXs brand-new Dragon spacecraft \u2013 named \u201cFreedom\u201d by the Crew-4 astronauts \u2013 arrived at Kennedy Space Center\u2019s Launch Complex 39A on April 16, 2022, after making the journey from SpaceX\u2019s processing facility at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. After Dragon is mated to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the launch vehicle will [\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-138301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138301","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=138301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}