{"id":17754,"date":"2020-03-31T17:17:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/japanese-astronaut-joins-the-crew-for-spacex-dragon-mission-to-space-station\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T17:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:17:56","slug":"japanese-astronaut-joins-the-crew-for-spacex-dragon-mission-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/japanese-astronaut-joins-the-crew-for-spacex-dragon-mission-to-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese astronaut joins the crew for SpaceX Dragon mission to space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_556007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556007\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-556007\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200331-noguchi-630x415.jpg\" alt=\"Soichi Noguchi\" width=\"630\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200331-noguchi-630x415.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200331-noguchi-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200331-noguchi.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-556007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veteran Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, seen here in 2010, is joining the crew of a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station. (NASA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first non-American to be added to the crew for a SpaceX Dragon flight to the International Space Station is Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Noguchi first visited the space station in 2005 during the first space shuttle flight following the 2003 Columbia shuttle tragedy, and rode a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a six-month orbital stay on the station in 2009-2010.<\/li>\n<li>For his next mission, Noguchi will be teaming up with NASA\u2019s Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. \u2014 plus Shannon Walker, who was also named today as a member of the first crew to begin a regular tour of duty on the space station with a Crew Dragon launch. The launch date hasn\u2019t yet been announced, but it\u2019s targeted for later this year.<\/li>\n<li>Before that flight lifts off, SpaceX is due to launch two NASA astronauts \u2014 Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley \u2014 on a demonstration mission to the space station and back. Today NASA reported that Behnken and Hurley have been going through a series of launch-to-landing simulations in preparation for the Dragon test flight, which is scheduled for as early as May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, seen here in 2010, is joining the crew of a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station. (NASA Photo) The first non-American to be added to the crew for a SpaceX Dragon flight to the International Space Station is Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Noguchi first visited the space [&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":[235,717,377,4842,316],"class_list":["post-17754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crew-dragon","tag-international-space-station","tag-japan","tag-japan-aerospace-exploration-agency","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754"}],"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=17754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}