{"id":129031,"date":"2021-09-18T19:46:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T02:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=129031"},"modified":"2021-09-18T19:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T02:46:27","slug":"spacex-dragon-and-inspiration4-crew-safely-splashed-down-off-florida-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=129031","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Dragon and Inspiration4 Crew Safely Splashed Down off Florida Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Canaveral, FL&#8230;After three days orbiting Earth, Dragon and the Inspiration4 crew \u2013 the world\u2019s first civilian mission to orbit \u2013 safely splashed down off the coast of Florida at 7:06 p.m. EDT on Saturday, September 18, 2021, completing their first multi-day low Earth orbit mission.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11195\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/E_mt2ClWEAE7a_K.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11196\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/E_nOtauXEAcE5Cg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dpFKNNl47AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dragon performed a series of departure phasing burns to leave the circular orbit of 575 kilometers and then jettisoned its trunk ahead of deorbit burns. After re-entering the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, the spacecraft deployed its two drogue and four main parachutes in preparation for the soft water landing.<\/p>\n<p>Upon splashdown, the Inspiration4 astronauts were welcomed home by the SpaceX team and quickly brought on board the recovery vessel. SpaceX will transport Dragon back to Cape Canaveral for inspections and refurbishment ahead of future human spaceflight missions.<\/p>\n<p>Source = SpaceX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Canaveral, FL&#8230;After three days orbiting Earth, Dragon and the Inspiration4 crew \u2013 the world\u2019s first civilian mission to orbit \u2013 safely splashed down off the coast of Florida at 7:06 p.m. EDT on Saturday, September 18, 2021, completing their first multi-day low Earth orbit mission. Dragon performed a series of departure phasing burns to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-life-style","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/E_mt2ClWEAE7a_K.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129033,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129031\/revisions\/129033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}