{"id":194768,"date":"2024-08-18T23:23:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T04:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nh-pilot-prepares-for-potentially-groundbreaking-space-x-flight"},"modified":"2024-08-18T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T04:23:40","slug":"nh-pilot-prepares-for-potentially-groundbreaking-space-x-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nh-pilot-prepares-for-potentially-groundbreaking-space-x-flight","title":{"rendered":"NH pilot prepares for potentially groundbreaking Space X flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nh-pilot-prepares-for-potentially-groundbreaking-space-x-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Durham native and three other crew members are preparing to embark on a flight of a lifetime to push the boundaries of commercial space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 26, Mission pilot Scott Poteet will help lead SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Rocket with the goal of soaring more than 1,400 kilometers at approximately 17,500 mph beyond Earth\u2019s atmosphere. The launch will take place at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Durham native and three other crew members are preparing to embark on a flight of a lifetime to push the boundaries of commercial space exploration. On Aug. 26, Mission pilot Scott Poteet will help lead SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Rocket with the goal of soaring more than 1,400 kilometers at approximately 17,500 mph beyond Earth\u2019s atmosphere. [\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-194768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194768","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=194768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}