{"id":24519,"date":"2016-04-10T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T16:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/spacex-delivers-worlds-first-inflatable-room-for-astronauts"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:49","slug":"spacex-delivers-worlds-first-inflatable-room-for-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/spacex-delivers-worlds-first-inflatable-room-for-astronauts","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX delivers world\u2019s first inflatable room for astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-delivers-worlds-first-inflatable-room-for-astronauts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has made good on a high-priority delivery: the world\u2019s first inflatable room for astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, two days after launching from Cape Canaveral. Station astronauts used a robot arm to capture the Dragon, orbiting 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragon holds 7,000 pounds (3,175 kilograms) of freight, including the soft-sided compartment built by Bigelow Aerospace. The pioneering pod\u2014packed tightly for launch\u2014should swell to the size of a small bedroom once filled with air next month.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-04-spacex-world-inflatable-room-astronauts.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;04-spacex-world-inflatable-room-astronauts.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has made good on a high-priority delivery: the world\u2019s first inflatable room for astronauts. A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, two days after launching from Cape Canaveral. Station astronauts used a robot arm to capture the Dragon, orbiting 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. The Dragon holds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24519","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\/24519","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67740,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions\/67740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}