{"id":46826,"date":"2020-05-25T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46826"},"modified":"2020-05-25T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:13:24","slug":"meet-the-nasa-astronauts-who-will-fly-on-spacexs-crew-dragon-for-launchamerica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/05\/meet-the-nasa-astronauts-who-will-fly-on-spacexs-crew-dragon-for-launchamerica\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the NASA Astronauts who will fly on SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon for #LaunchAmerica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as astronauts once again launch from American soil on American rockets to the International Space Station.<br>NASA astronauts\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001zuKtKXw2NjTcpexCR14oQbQ7F05DQdz6Men2LYHwYQ9hVW8ECLuWihqIHN1M9V5jOHw7waWfD8puhU0EL-BhuBIsCCi04weDqlB2df93o0iSc7RqY0CheRoxElAIHCSqgM36xLobKt5TNTdwBldIMRLGz2Lv18rvEbN9tjAKANe2d5U_amUoDhhzpvYlqbPQc11OckUNl6U=&amp;c=dxmmBdywLinkOjuwK0X-6Sc0tAoZzP1PszM2xojKVLPS8scfLazT0w==&amp;ch=d8sEOA43oJek0y_5Txg8TkwPTYWykZCeDF1x3LMRgjxWoWH7G3yTEQ==\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Behnken<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001zuKtKXw2NjTcpexCR14oQbQ7F05DQdz6Men2LYHwYQ9hVW8ECLuWihqIHN1M9V5jXVjVB32NJHliNOxASPaHvLUQyGTMocv34r5IVBmLXvHARdIsOV_Qja7rrDDluS902UqapcV8diVX_Jdcn2yqoPsRviB4wuqb_ovHqmeWLt2mjcyAFsPOjMlF4lwFnX6C0qO3lMQsAbE=&amp;c=dxmmBdywLinkOjuwK0X-6Sc0tAoZzP1PszM2xojKVLPS8scfLazT0w==&amp;ch=d8sEOA43oJek0y_5Txg8TkwPTYWykZCeDF1x3LMRgjxWoWH7G3yTEQ==\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Hurley<\/a>\u00a0will be the first crew to fly on SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on May 27 for an extended stay at the space station. They were among the first astronauts to begin working and training on SpaceX\u2019s next-generation human spaceflight vehicle and were selected for their test pilot and flight experience, including several missions on the space shuttle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Know Your Crew! With Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gu4o5KgnAQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as astronauts once again launch from American soil on American rockets to the International Space Station.NASA astronauts\u00a0Robert Behnken\u00a0and\u00a0Douglas Hurley\u00a0will be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}