{"id":184028,"date":"2024-02-29T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/meet-the-spacex-crew-8-astronauts-launching-to-the-iss-on-march-2"},"modified":"2024-02-29T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:24:09","slug":"meet-the-spacex-crew-8-astronauts-launching-to-the-iss-on-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/meet-the-spacex-crew-8-astronauts-launching-to-the-iss-on-march-2","title":{"rendered":"Meet the SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts launching to the ISS on March 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-spacex-crew-8-astronauts-launching-to-the-iss-on-march-22.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four new astronauts are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday (March 2) as part of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-8 mission.<\/p>\n<p>Crew-8, the eighth operational commercial crew mission for NASA, will lift off Saturday at 11:16 p.m. EST (0416 GMT on March 3) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida using the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, situated atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The Crew Dragon spacecraft will then dock with the orbiting lab the following day around 2:10 p.m. EST (1910 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four new astronauts are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday (March 2) as part of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Crew-8, the eighth operational commercial crew mission for NASA, will lift off Saturday at 11:16 p.m. EST (0416 GMT on March 3) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida using the SpaceX Crew [\u2026]<\/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-184028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184028","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=184028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}