{"id":99529,"date":"2019-12-10T04:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/spacex-delivers-mighty-mice-worms-robot-to-space-station"},"modified":"2019-12-10T04:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:02:47","slug":"spacex-delivers-mighty-mice-worms-robot-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/spacex-delivers-mighty-mice-worms-robot-to-space-station","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX delivers \u2018mighty mice,\u2019 worms, robot to space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-delivers-mighty-mice-worms-robot-to-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. \u2014 SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing muscle-bound \u201cmighty mice,\u201d pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot.<\/p>\n<p>The station commander, Italy\u2019s Luca Parmitano, used a large robot arm to grab onto the Dragon three days after its launch from Cape Canaveral. The two spacecraft soared 260 miles (420 kilometres) above the South Pacific at the time of capture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever we welcome a new vehicle on board, we take on board also a little bit of the soul of everybody that contributed to the project, so welcome on board,\u201d Parmitano told Mission Control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. \u2014 SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing muscle-bound \u201cmighty mice,\u201d pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot. The station commander, Italy\u2019s Luca Parmitano, used a large robot arm to grab onto the Dragon three days after its launch from Cape Canaveral. The two spacecraft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99529","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=99529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}