{"id":17746,"date":"2020-04-08T01:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-dragon-cargo-craft-leaves-space-station-and-splashes-down-in-pacific-amid-virus-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T01:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:25:15","slug":"spacex-dragon-cargo-craft-leaves-space-station-and-splashes-down-in-pacific-amid-virus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-dragon-cargo-craft-leaves-space-station-and-splashes-down-in-pacific-amid-virus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Dragon cargo craft leaves space station and splashes down in Pacific amid virus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_557272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-557272\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-557272\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200407-spacex-630x420.jpeg\" alt=\"Dragon cargo capsule\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200407-spacex-630x420.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200407-spacex-1260x839.jpeg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200407-spacex-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200407-spacex-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200407-spacex.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-557272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s Dragon cargo capsule is prepared for departure from the International Space Station. (NASA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The International Space Station bid farewell to a robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule, with measures being taken at mission control to protect against COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Dragon was set loose after spending a month hooked up to the space station, and brought two tons of equipment and experiments back to Earth. One of the payloads was a University of Washington experiment designed to study how heart muscle tissue grown from human stem cells fared in zero-G.<\/li>\n<li>Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean occurred at 11:50 a.m. PT, ending the final flight for the original Dragon design. SpaceX\u2019s future resupply missions will use a cargo-only version of the upgraded Crew Dragon, also known as Dragon 2.<\/li>\n<li>Members of SpaceX\u2019s mission control team in California spread out and wore face masks today as a pandemic precaution. So far, six SpaceX workers have tested positive for COVID-19, CNBC reported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Dragon cargo capsule is prepared for departure from the International Space Station. (NASA Photo) The International Space Station bid farewell to a robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule, with measures being taken at mission control to protect against COVID-19 infection. The Dragon was set loose after spending a month hooked up to the space station, [&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":[1395,717,190,316],"class_list":["post-17746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dragon","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746"}],"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=17746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}