{"id":81725,"date":"2018-08-14T22:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/spacex-preparing-astronauts-to-return-to-space-travel"},"modified":"2018-08-14T22:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T05:22:43","slug":"spacex-preparing-astronauts-to-return-to-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/spacex-preparing-astronauts-to-return-to-space-travel","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX preparing astronauts to return to space travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-preparing-astronauts-to-return-to-space-travel.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to fly until we are ready to fly safely,\u201d said SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell at the event Monday. \u201cWe need to hit all the boxes and do everything we need to do to take astronauts from U.S. soil as often as NASA will let us.\u201cAfter SpaceX successfully completes Demo-2, NASA will certify the spacecraft and systems for regular crewed launches to the ISS, with astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover flying the first operational mission.<\/p>\n<p>Even with all the safety precautions and testing, however, the astronauts remain aware that space flight is extremely hazardous.\u201cThe only thing I\u2019m afraid of,\u201d said Glover, who is married and has four daughters, \u201cis not coming home to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/articles.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2018\/08\/spacex_preparing_astronauts_to.amp\">https:\/\/articles.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2018\/08\/spacex_prepar...uts_to.amp<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are not going to fly until we are ready to fly safely,\u201d said SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell at the event Monday. \u201cWe need to hit all the boxes and do everything we need to do to take astronauts from U.S. soil as often as NASA will let us.\u201cAfter SpaceX successfully completes Demo-2, [\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-81725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81725","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=81725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}