{"id":83297,"date":"2018-10-04T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/first-spacex-commercial-crew-test-flight-could-slip-to-2019"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:03:27","slug":"first-spacex-commercial-crew-test-flight-could-slip-to-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/first-spacex-commercial-crew-test-flight-could-slip-to-2019","title":{"rendered":"First SpaceX commercial crew test flight could slip to 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-spacex-commercial-crew-test-flight-could-slip-to-2019.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BREMEN, Germany \u2014 A SpaceX executive said Oct. 3 that the company\u2019s first commercial crew test flight could be delayed until early 2019 because of paperwork issues.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech at the 69th International Astronautical Congress here, Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of build and flight reliability for SpaceX, said launching an uncrewed test flight before the end of the year will be a \u201cclose call\u201d even though the hardware itself should be ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working hard to get this done this year,\u201d he said. \u201cThe hardware might be ready, but we might still have to do some paperwork on the certification side of it. It\u2019s going to be a close call whether we fly this year or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/first-spacex-commercial-crew-flight-test-could-slip-to-2019\/\">https:\/\/spacenews.com\/first-spacex-commercial-crew-flight-te...p-to-2019\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREMEN, Germany \u2014 A SpaceX executive said Oct. 3 that the company\u2019s first commercial crew test flight could be delayed until early 2019 because of paperwork issues. In a speech at the 69th International Astronautical Congress here, Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of build and flight reliability for SpaceX, said launching an uncrewed test flight before [\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-83297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83297","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=83297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83425,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83297\/revisions\/83425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}