{"id":12551,"date":"2020-04-04T01:37:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-astronauts-participate-in-crew-dragon-launch-day-dress-rehearsal\/"},"modified":"2020-04-04T01:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:37:59","slug":"video-astronauts-participate-in-crew-dragon-launch-day-dress-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-astronauts-participate-in-crew-dragon-launch-day-dress-rehearsal\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Astronauts participate in Crew Dragon launch day dress rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q9m2QJz6fk8\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, assigned to fly SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft on its first piloted mission into orbit, participated in a dress rehearsal of their suit-up procedures and a trip to launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 17, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>NASA and SpaceX officials organized the practice run before the launch of a Crew Dragon capsule on a high-altitude escape test to demonstrate the performance ship\u2019s launch abort engines.<\/p>\n<p>In this video released by NASA, the astronauts are seen suiting up inside the Operations and Checkout Building at KSC, riding inside a Tesla Model X automobile to pad 39A, then taking an elevator to the 265-foot-level. Hurley and Behnken walked across the crew access arm to the white room, where they would board the Crew Dragon during a real countdown.<\/p>\n<p>On launch day, the astronauts will follow a similar path, riding across the space center the Tesla Model X to the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, assigned to fly SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft on its first piloted mission into orbit, participated in a dress rehearsal of their suit-up procedures and a trip to launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 17, 2020. NASA and SpaceX officials organized the practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2125,524,2010,235,2126,2268,2269,2127],"class_list":["post-12551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bob-behnken","tag-commercial-crew","tag-coronavirus","tag-crew-dragon","tag-crew-dragon-demo-2","tag-crew-dragon-in-flight-abort","tag-crew-equipment-interface-test","tag-doug-hurley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}