{"id":18812,"date":"2017-09-08T18:54:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-billionaire-elon-musk-shows-off-dragon-spaceship-and-the-suit-for-the-ride\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T18:54:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:54:25","slug":"spacex-billionaire-elon-musk-shows-off-dragon-spaceship-and-the-suit-for-the-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-billionaire-elon-musk-shows-off-dragon-spaceship-and-the-suit-for-the-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk shows off Dragon spaceship and the suit for the ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve already gotten our first peek at the spacesuit that astronauts will wear when they\u2019re riding in SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spaceship, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk set hearts racing once again today when he sent out a picture showing the spacesuit being modeled next to the Dragon 2:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BYyvO2WA3Ra\/<\/p>\n<p>The picture emphasizes the classic black-and-white color scheme for the suit as well as the ship, which looks quite a bit different from the robotic Dragon 1 that\u2019s currently being used to transfer cargo to and from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, the suit and the ship will get their first in-space tryout next year, when SpaceX and Boeing are scheduled to start ferrying astronauts to the station.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing\u2019s blue-and-gray spacesuit had its big moment&nbsp;earlier this year on CBS\u2019 \u201cLate Show With Stephen Colbert\u201d when it was modeled at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida alongside the company\u2019s Starliner space taxi.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019ll wear which spacesuit first? Right now, SpaceX is scheduled to take the first turn at flying astronauts in mid-2018, but that schedule could easily change depending on how quickly the two companies make progress on the Dragon and the Starliner. To keep track of that progress, check out NASA\u2019s blog postings on the Commercial Crew Program.<\/p>\n<p>But who\u2019ll wear it better? The SpaceX suit certainly has its fans: Within just a couple of hours, the Instagram posting attracted more than 140,000 likes, and Musk\u2019s follow-up Twitter post attracted 4,600 likes and 1,300 retweets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Crew Dragon | In Orbit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1EB5BQpm7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve already gotten our first peek at the spacesuit that astronauts will wear when they\u2019re riding in SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spaceship, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk set hearts racing once again today when he sent out a picture showing the spacesuit being modeled next to the Dragon 2: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BYyvO2WA3Ra\/ The picture emphasizes the classic black-and-white [&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":[291,1395,190,1464,316],"class_list":["post-18812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-dragon","tag-nasa","tag-spacesuit","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812"}],"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=18812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}