{"id":88212,"date":"2019-02-27T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/what-to-expect-when-crew-dragon-launches-to-the-international-space-station"},"modified":"2019-02-27T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:23:08","slug":"what-to-expect-when-crew-dragon-launches-to-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/what-to-expect-when-crew-dragon-launches-to-the-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"What to expect when Crew Dragon launches to the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-to-expect-when-crew-dragon-launches-to-the-international-space-station2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s finally happening. Nearly 8 years after the final space shuttle flight, a crew-capable spacecraft is once again ready to launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon is scheduled to blast off for a 6-day, uncrewed test flight on 2 March at 02:49 EST (07:49 UTC). If all goes well, the spacecraft will dock at the International Space Station (ISS) on 3 March around 06:00 EST (11:00 UTC) and stay there until 8 March, when it returns to Earth and splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/what-to-expect-crew-dragon.html\">http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/what-to-expect-crew-dragon.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s finally happening. Nearly 8 years after the final space shuttle flight, a crew-capable spacecraft is once again ready to launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon is scheduled to blast off for a 6-day, uncrewed test flight on 2 March at 02:49 EST (07:49 UTC). If all goes well, the spacecraft will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88212","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}