{"id":17739,"date":"2020-04-17T22:18:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/a-date-with-history-nasa-and-spacex-schedule-first-crewed-dragon-mission-for-may-27-launch\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T22:18:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:18:40","slug":"a-date-with-history-nasa-and-spacex-schedule-first-crewed-dragon-mission-for-may-27-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/a-date-with-history-nasa-and-spacex-schedule-first-crewed-dragon-mission-for-may-27-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"A date with history: NASA and SpaceX schedule first crewed Dragon mission for May 27 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_559325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559325\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-559325\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200417-spacex-630x354.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200417-spacex-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200417-spacex-1260x709.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200417-spacex-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200417-spacex-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200417-spacex.jpg 1843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-559325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley run through a simulation of launch and docking in preparation for their flight to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship. (SpaceX Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASA and SpaceX have set a date for the first crewed space mission to be launched into orbit from U.S. soil since the space shuttle fleet\u2019s retirement nearly nine years ago.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket is due to launch NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship at 4:32 p.m. ET (1:32 p.m. PT) May 27, sending them to the International Space Station for an extended stay. Liftoff will take place at Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the Apollo 11 moon mission and the first shuttle mission were launched.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s announcement of a launch date comes after years of development by SpaceX under the terms of a multibillion-dollar contract with NASA. Boeing is working on a different type of space taxi for the space station, known as the CST-100 Starliner \u2013 but an uncrewed test flight last December ran into glitches, with the result that Starliner\u2019s first crewed flight won\u2019t take place for months.<\/li>\n<li>A successful Dragon demonstration mission would reduce the need to put U.S. astronauts on Russian Soyuz spacecraft, for which NASA has been paying the Russians upwards of $80 million per seat. There\u2019ll be an added perk for Behnken and Hurley: They\u2019ll be able to claim a U.S. flag that was left aboard the space station by the last space shuttle crew in 2011 for the next crew to launch from American soil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley run through a simulation of launch and docking in preparation for their flight to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship. (SpaceX Photo) NASA and SpaceX have set a date for the first crewed space mission to be launched into orbit from U.S. soil since [&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":[235,1395,717,316],"class_list":["post-17739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crew-dragon","tag-dragon","tag-international-space-station","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739"}],"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=17739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}