{"id":4390,"date":"2012-05-25T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2012-08-06T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T20:43:03","slug":"spacex-dragon-space-station-astronauts-capture-dragon-capsule-making-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4390","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Dragon: Space station astronauts capture Dragon capsule, making history"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At 9:56 a.m. EDT, space station flight engineer Don Pettit reached out with a 58-foot robotic arm and grabbed the unmanned capsule, which was &#8220;free drifting&#8221; beneath the $100-billion station at 17,000 miles an hour, roughly 250 miles above northwest Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/os-spacex-dragon-makes-history-20120525,0,1125697.story\">SpaceX Dragon: Space station astronauts capture Dragon capsule, making history &#8211; chicagotribune.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Once again SpaceX has done it. They have become the first private company to successfully launch their own spacecraft and get it captured by the International Space Station&#8217;s robotic arm,&#8221; said NASA commentator Josh Byerly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:56 a.m. EDT, space station flight engineer Don Pettit reached out with a 58-foot robotic arm and grabbed the unmanned capsule, which was &#8220;free drifting&#8221; beneath the $100-billion station at 17,000 miles an hour, roughly 250 miles above northwest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[645,512,650],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-history","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5436,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/5436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}