{"id":643528,"date":"2024-05-06T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643528"},"modified":"2024-05-06T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:47:09","slug":"boeing-to-launch-astronauts-in-new-capsule-expanding-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-to-launch-astronauts-in-new-capsule-expanding-space-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing to launch astronauts in new capsule, expanding space travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first flight of Boeing&#8217;s Starliner capsule with a crew on board, a pair of NASA pilots who will check out the spacecraft during the test drive and a weeklong stay at the space station. <\/p>\n<p>NASA turned to US companies for astronaut rides after the space shuttles were retired. Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has made nine taxi trips for NASA since 2020, while Boeing has managed only a pair of unoccupied test flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. It&#8217;s the first flight of Boeing&#8217;s Starliner capsule with a crew on board, a pair of NASA pilots who will check out the spacecraft during the test drive and a weeklong stay at the space station. NASA turned to US companies for astronaut rides after the space shuttles were retired. Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has made nine taxi trips for NASA since 2020, while Boeing has managed only a pair of unoccupied test flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}