{"id":55380,"date":"2020-05-31T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55380"},"modified":"2020-05-31T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:28:32","slug":"55380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55380","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/spacex-spacecraft-docks-with-international-space-station-historic-nasa-mission\">SpaceX spacecraft docks with International Space Station on historic NASA mission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft crewed by NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken has docked with the International Space Station on its historic Demo-2 mission.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center Saturday. <strong>The mission is the first time that astronauts have launched from American soil since the final Space Shuttle flight in 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The mission is also the first time a private company, rather than a national government, has sent astronauts into orbit&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday evening Hurley announced that the spacecraft, previously known as capsule 206, has been renamed Endeavour, continuing the tradition of astronauts naming their capsules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to welcome you aboard capsule Endeavour,\u201d he said. \u201cWe chose Endeavour for a few reasons \u2013 one, because of the incredible Endeavour NASA, SpaceX and the United States has been on since the end of the shuttle program in 2011. The other reason we named it Endeavour is little more personal \u2013 Bob and I, we both had our first flight on Shuttle Endeavour and it just meant to much to us to carry on that name.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX spacecraft docks with International Space Station on historic NASA mission SpaceX\u2019s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft crewed by NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken has docked with the International Space Station on its historic Demo-2 mission. The spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center Saturday. The mission is the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55381,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55380\/revisions\/55381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}