{"id":226852,"date":"2025-05-31T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=0d286da869e2f535d0147f305fd6850b"},"modified":"2025-05-31T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:00:30","slug":"nasas-spacex-demo-2-launch-fifth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=226852","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1325\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg?w=1325\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A seated crowd is in the foreground, facing a stage in the distance where President Donald Trump stands at a podium. He is flanked by a SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule and part of a SpaceX Dragon rocket. The picture is taken inside of the Vehicle Assembly Building; scaffolding can be seen as you look up.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg 1325w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg?resize=207,300 207w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg?resize=768,1113 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg?resize=707,1024 707w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg?resize=1060,1536 1060w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg?resize=276,400 276w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg?resize=414,600 414w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg?resize=621,900 621w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/nhq202005300083large.jpg?resize=828,1200 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1325px) 100vw, 1325px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasas-spacex-demo-2-resources-archive\/\">NASA\u2019s SpaceX Demo-2<\/a> mission on May 30, 2020. The mission was the first crewed launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/commercial-space\/commercial-crew-program\/\">Commercial Crew Program<\/a>. This marked the first time American astronauts launched on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit since the conclusion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/space-shuttle\/\">Space Shuttle Program<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Demo-2 mission on May 30, 2020. The mission was the first crewed launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-crew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228710,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226852\/revisions\/228710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}