{"id":777853,"date":"2024-02-26T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=777853"},"modified":"2024-02-26T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T18:15:50","slug":"nasa-invites-you-to-share-excitement-of-agencys-spacex-crew-8-launch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=777853","title":{"rendered":"NASA Invites You to Share Excitement of Agency\u2019s SpaceX Crew-8 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities for the launch of the agency\u2019s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist, will fly to the space station aboard SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Launch is targeted for no earlier than 12:04 a.m. EST on Friday, March. 1, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public can register to attend the launch virtually. As a virtual guest, you have access to curated resources, schedule changes, and mission specific information delivered straight to your inbox. Following each activity, virtual guests are sent a mission specific collectable stamp for their virtual guest passport. Hear more about the virtual guest program from the Crew-5 astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage and countdown commentary will begin at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 29 on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the <a>agency\u2019s<\/a> website. Details about the mission and NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program can be found by following the\u00a0Crew-8 blog, the\u00a0commercial crew blog,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/commercial_crew\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>, and\u00a0Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/get-involved\/virtual-guest-program\/nasa-invites-you-to-share-excitement-of-agencys-spacex-crew-8-launch\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities for the launch of the agency\u2019s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, commander;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777853","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/777850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}