{"id":148299,"date":"2022-10-16T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/delightfully-boring-spacexs-dragon-capsule-freedom-aces-1st-astronaut-mission"},"modified":"2022-10-16T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T22:23:04","slug":"delightfully-boring-spacexs-dragon-capsule-freedom-aces-1st-astronaut-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/delightfully-boring-spacexs-dragon-capsule-freedom-aces-1st-astronaut-mission","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Delightfully boring:\u2019 SpaceX\u2019s Dragon capsule Freedom aces 1st astronaut mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/delightfully-boring-spacexs-dragon-capsule-freedom-aces-1st-astronaut-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first mission for SpaceX\u2019s newest Dragon crew capsule could hardly have gone more smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew4-freedom-dragon-name-alan-shepard\">named Freedom<\/a>, flew SpaceX\u2019s Crew-4 astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA, which wrapped up Friday afternoon (Oct. 14) with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-4-mission-returns-to-earth\">splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean<\/a> off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first mission for SpaceX\u2019s newest Dragon crew capsule could hardly have gone more smoothly. The spacecraft, named Freedom, flew SpaceX\u2019s Crew-4 astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA, which wrapped up Friday afternoon (Oct. 14) with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.<\/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-148299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148299","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=148299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}