{"id":504682,"date":"2018-08-03T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ca2cc834f0d6c65f9433822caa04ee2f"},"modified":"2018-08-03T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:33:00","slug":"nasa-announces-crew-for-first-commercial-space-flights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=504682","title":{"rendered":"NASA Announces Crew For First Commercial Space Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/08\/03\/nasacrew_wide-f7f13fe127fa546ffb5c352138bd17ada999d386.png?s=600' alt='NASA has named nine astronauts to crew the first test flights and missions of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. From left to right: Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover.'\/><\/p>\n<p>NASA has selected the astronauts who will blast off on new commercial space vehicles set for next year. Two of them flew on the final mission of NASA&#8217;s space shuttle in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=635344671' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has selected the astronauts who will blast off on new commercial space vehicles set for next year. Two of them flew on the final mission of NASA&#8217;s space shuttle in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504683,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504682\/revisions\/504683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}