{"id":83166,"date":"2018-09-30T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T17:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/360-video-inside-boeings-starliner-space-capsule"},"modified":"2018-09-30T10:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T17:42:59","slug":"360-video-inside-boeings-starliner-space-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/360-video-inside-boeings-starliner-space-capsule","title":{"rendered":"360 Video: Inside Boeing\u2019s Starliner space capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ye2TKplLqp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The gumdrop-shaped capsule is designed to function essentially as a space taxi, ferrying up to seven astronauts and their cargo to and from the International Space Station. Boeing is expected to conduct the spacecraft\u2019s first crewed test flight to the ISS next year. (SpaceX is putting the finishing touches on its Crew Dragon capsule, which is also scheduled to carry its first crew in 2019.) <\/p>\n<p>Recently, NBC News MACH visited a Starliner mock-up at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston to get an insider\u2019s look at the spacecraft \u2014 and a sense of what it would be like to fly aboard the futuristic capsule. <em>[Editor\u2019s note: Boeing is a sponsor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/making-of-an-astronaut\">MACH\u2019s Making of an Astronaut series<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/360-video-inside-boeing-s-starliner-space-capsule-ncna914856\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/360-video-inside-boeing...ncna914856<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gumdrop-shaped capsule is designed to function essentially as a space taxi, ferrying up to seven astronauts and their cargo to and from the International Space Station. Boeing is expected to conduct the spacecraft\u2019s first crewed test flight to the ISS next year. (SpaceX is putting the finishing touches on its Crew Dragon capsule, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83166","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=83166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}