{"id":88765,"date":"2019-03-18T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T01:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-crew-dragon-heat-shield-shown-off-after-first-orbital-velocity-reentry"},"modified":"2019-03-18T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T01:02:42","slug":"spacexs-crew-dragon-heat-shield-shown-off-after-first-orbital-velocity-reentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-crew-dragon-heat-shield-shown-off-after-first-orbital-velocity-reentry","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon heat shield shown off after first orbital-velocity reentry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-crew-dragon-heat-shield-shown-off-after-first-orbital-velocity-reentry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following SpaceX\u2019s successful debut launch, rendezvous, and recovery of Crew Dragon, NASA has published official photos documenting the scorched spacecraft\u2019s Atlantic Ocean splashdown, GO Searcher\u2019s recovery, and the duo\u2019s return to Port Canaveral shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from offering a number of spectacularly detailed views of Crew Dragon after its inaugural orbital reentry, NASA\u2019s photos also provide an exceptionally rare glimpse of the spacecraft\u2019s PICA-X v3 heat shield, revealing a tiled layout that is quite a bit different from Cargo Dragon\u2019s own shield. A step further, CEO Elon Musk offered updates on March 17th about progress being made towards a new, metallic heat shield technology meant to make ablative shields like those on Dragon outdated, serving as a striking bit of contrast to SpaceX\u2019s newest spacecraft, potentially just a dozen or two months away from already becoming anachronistic.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-heat-shield-reentry\/amp\/#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-heat-shield-ree...google.com<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following SpaceX\u2019s successful debut launch, rendezvous, and recovery of Crew Dragon, NASA has published official photos documenting the scorched spacecraft\u2019s Atlantic Ocean splashdown, GO Searcher\u2019s recovery, and the duo\u2019s return to Port Canaveral shortly thereafter. Aside from offering a number of spectacularly detailed views of Crew Dragon after its inaugural orbital reentry, NASA\u2019s photos also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88765","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=88765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}