{"id":82008,"date":"2018-08-24T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T23:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/spacexs-new-astronaut-walkway-represents-a-step-toward-crewed-flight"},"modified":"2018-08-24T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T23:30:52","slug":"spacexs-new-astronaut-walkway-represents-a-step-toward-crewed-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/spacexs-new-astronaut-walkway-represents-a-step-toward-crewed-flight","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s New Astronaut Walkway Represents a Step Toward Crewed Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-new-astronaut-walkway-represents-a-step-toward-crewed-flight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is another step closer to crewed flight.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday (Aug. 20), the private spaceflight company installed an astronaut walkway at Launch Pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, the jumping-off point for SpaceX\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41494-spacex-crew-dragon-spaceship-inside-look.html\">Crew Dragon spaceship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The walkway is like the jetways that connect airport lounges and airliners. Astronauts will use the walkway to get from Pad 39A\u2019s tower to Crew Dragon, which will sit atop SpaceX\u2019s 230-foot-tall (70 meters) Falcon 9 rocket. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41482-space-crew-dragon-behind-the-scenes-photos.html\">Photos: Behind-the-Scenes Look at SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon Spaceship<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41615-spacex-astronaut-walkway-launchpad-first-photos.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/41615-spacex-astronaut-walkway-launchpad-first-photos.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is another step closer to crewed flight. On Monday (Aug. 20), the private spaceflight company installed an astronaut walkway at Launch Pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, the jumping-off point for SpaceX\u2019s new Crew Dragon spaceship. The walkway is like the jetways that connect airport lounges and airliners. Astronauts will [\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-82008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82008","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=82008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}