{"id":88937,"date":"2019-03-25T20:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T03:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-crew-dragon-to-launch-astronauts-in-july-says-russian-source"},"modified":"2019-03-25T20:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T03:02:43","slug":"spacexs-crew-dragon-to-launch-astronauts-in-july-says-russian-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-crew-dragon-to-launch-astronauts-in-july-says-russian-source","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon to launch astronauts in July, says Russian source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-crew-dragon-to-launch-astronauts-in-july-says-russian-source.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with Russia\u2019s aerospace industry recently informed state newspaper RIA Novosti that NASA has provided Russian space agency Roscosmos with an updated planning schedule for International Space Station (ISS) operations, including a preliminary target for SpaceX\u2019s first Crew Dragon launch with astronauts aboard.<\/p>\n<p>According to RIA\u2019s source, NASA informed Roscosmos that the agency was tentatively planning for the launch of SpaceX\u2019s Demonstration Mission 2 (DM-2) as early as July 25th, with the spacecraft departing the ISS, reentering the atmosphere, and safely returning astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth on August 5th. In a bizarre turn of events, Russian news agency TASS published a separate article barely 12 hours later, in which \u2013 once again \u2013 an anonymous space agency source told the outlet that \u201cthe [DM-2] launch of Crew Dragon is likely to be postponed to November\u201d. For the time being, the reality likely stands somewhere in the middle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-astronaut-launch-target\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-astronaut-launch-target\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A source familiar with Russia\u2019s aerospace industry recently informed state newspaper RIA Novosti that NASA has provided Russian space agency Roscosmos with an updated planning schedule for International Space Station (ISS) operations, including a preliminary target for SpaceX\u2019s first Crew Dragon launch with astronauts aboard. According to RIA\u2019s source, NASA informed Roscosmos that the agency [\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-88937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88937","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=88937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}