{"id":88423,"date":"2019-03-05T16:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-crew-dragon-spaceship-shown-off-in-first-high-res-orbital-portraits"},"modified":"2019-03-05T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:44:46","slug":"spacexs-crew-dragon-spaceship-shown-off-in-first-high-res-orbital-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-crew-dragon-spaceship-shown-off-in-first-high-res-orbital-portraits","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spaceship shown off in first high-res orbital portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-crew-dragon-spaceship-shown-off-in-first-high-res-orbital-portraits2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taken by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, the first high-resolution photos of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft have begun to trickle in, offering the best views yet of the advanced human-rated spacecraft in its natural habit: Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Filling in for a distinct and uncharacteristic lack of official photos from NASA, the spacecraft\u2019s inaugural spaceflight had thus far only been documented through NASA\u2019s own live coverage of its International Space Station (ISS) rendezvous, limited to a relatively low-quality stream. With Oleg\u2019s extremely high-resolution captures, we can begin to see SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon with a level of detail previously only seen (if ever) on the ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p> Stunning photos of Dragon 2 docking from Oleg Kononenko! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2019\/03\/crew-dragon-first-docking-iss-dm1\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2019\/03\/crew-dragon-first-docking-iss-dm1\/\">https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2019\/03\/crew-dragon-first-docking-iss-dm1\/<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-space-station-photos\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-space-station-photos\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, the first high-resolution photos of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft have begun to trickle in, offering the best views yet of the advanced human-rated spacecraft in its natural habit: Earth orbit. Filling in for a distinct and uncharacteristic lack of official photos from NASA, the spacecraft\u2019s inaugural spaceflight had thus [\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-88423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88423","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=88423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}