{"id":184575,"date":"2024-03-09T01:51:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/spacex-launches-eighth-long-duration-crew-for-international-space-station-orbit"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:51:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:51:35","slug":"spacex-launches-eighth-long-duration-crew-for-international-space-station-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/spacex-launches-eighth-long-duration-crew-for-international-space-station-orbit","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches eighth long-duration crew for International Space Station orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-launches-eighth-long-duration-crew-for-international-space-station-orbit3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, March 3 (Reuters) \u2014 A SpaceX rocket safely lifted off from Florida on Sunday night carrying a crew of three U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) to begin a six-month science mission in Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Endeavor was launched from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, along Florida\u2019s Atlantic coast, at 10:53 p.m. EST (0353 GMT Monday).<\/p>\n<p>A live NASA-SpaceX webcast showed the 25-story-tall rocketship ascending from the launch tower as its nine Merlin engines roared to life in billowing clouds of vapor and a reddish fireball that lit up the night sky. The rocket consumes 700,000 gallons of fuel per second during launch, according to SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, March 3 (Reuters) \u2014 A SpaceX rocket safely lifted off from Florida on Sunday night carrying a crew of three U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) to begin a six-month science mission in Earth orbit. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with an [\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-184575","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\/184575","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=184575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}