{"id":8193,"date":"2020-06-01T21:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T02:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2020-06-01T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T02:56:26","slug":"spacex-returns-human-spaceflight-to-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=8193","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Returns Human Spaceflight to the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday, May 30 at 3:22 p.m. EDT, SpaceX\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/vehicles\/falcon-9\/\" target=\"_blank\">Falcon 9<\/a>\u00a0launched\u00a0Crew Dragon\u2019s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission\u00a0from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the next day Crew Dragon autonomously docked to the International Space Station. This test flight with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board the\u00a0Dragon spacecraft returned human spaceflight to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/spacex-vector-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/spacex-vector-logo.png 890w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/spacex-vector-logo-300x71.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/spacex-vector-logo-768x181.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Demo-2 is the final major test for SpaceX\u2019s human spaceflight system to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station. SpaceX is returning human spaceflight to the United States with one of the safest, most advanced systems ever built, and NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program is a turning point for America\u2019s future in space exploration that lays the groundwork for future missions to the\u00a0Moon,\u00a0Mars,\u00a0and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1438\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/iss062e087414-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C359\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/iss062e087414-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/iss062e087414-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/iss062e087414-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/iss062e087414-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/iss062e087414-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/iss062e087414-2048x1150.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the video below to watch the launch!<\/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=\"SpaceX , NASA launch Falcon 9 to International Space Station\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KbdVzZH9GJE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 30 at 3:22 p.m. EDT, SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon\u2019s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the next day <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,5804,5637,4552,1836,5992,2203,4957,5676,10674,5446,10169,4882,10195,10171,868],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-avionics","category-business-news","category-cargo-news","category-defense-news","category-economic-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-military","category-military-news","category-news","category-space-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8203,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}