{"id":16574,"date":"2018-08-14T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16574"},"modified":"2018-08-14T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:36:30","slug":"videos-spacex-presents-the-crew-dragon-and-the-first-astronauts-to-ride-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16574","title":{"rendered":"Videos: SpaceX presents the Crew Dragon and the first astronauts to ride it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The astronauts who will fly on the first Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew missions to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_d\">International Space Station<\/a>\u00a0were introduced by NASA to the public earlier this month (see <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posting here<\/a>). On Monday, SpaceX held a press event at the company&#8217;s HQ in Hawthorne, California where the astronauts who will fly on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dragon_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crew Dragon<\/a> were presented and the Dragon and other hardware items were shown off as well. Here are some videos about the event:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dtNaViQKak0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PYrpLU6SPW0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LcuFCLjuuqk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x7h7wtTkLLQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here aer a couple of reports on the event<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/08\/spacex-reveals-the-controls-of-its-dragon-spacecraft-for-the-first-time\/\">SpaceX reveals the controls of its Dragon spacecraft for the first time | Ars Technica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/14\/spacex-hq-behind-the-scenes-crew-dragon-capsule-nasa-astronauts.html\" target=\"_d\">SpaceX HQ behind the scenes: Crew Dragon capsule, NASA astronauts &#8211; CNBC\u200b<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Lots of photos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/everydayastronaut.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everyday Astronaut<\/a>\u00a0Tim Dodd attended the event as well:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/everydayastronaut.com\/inside-spacex\/\" target=\"_d\">A rare look inside SpaceX Headquarters and Crew Dragon. &#8211; Everyday Astronaut.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He examined the SpaceX flight suit up close:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/everydayastronaut.com\/up-close-and-personal-with-spacexs-space-suit\/\" target=\"_d\">Up close and personal with SpaceX&#8217;s space suit &#8211; Everyday Astronaut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dodd recently got to try on the flight suit that Boeing astronauts will wear during their missions to the ISS:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FaOAsUR-o-U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=wireless&amp;banner=02HND5YJK5NEFPBWFS02&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=7c7721c131c0bf76b1b2eecfd790e5b6&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astronauts who will fly on the first Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew missions to the International Space Station\u00a0were introduced by NASA to the public earlier this month (see posting here). On Monday, SpaceX held a press event at the company&#8217;s HQ in Hawthorne, California where the astronauts who will fly on the Crew Dragon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: SpaceX presents the Crew Dragon and the first astronauts to ride it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[17,5,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-rockets","category-spaceflight-parabolic-flight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4jk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24686,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=24686","url_meta":{"origin":16574,"position":0},"title":"Videos: &#8220;Space to Ground&#8221; + Other ISS reports &#8211; Nov.12.2021","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest episode in NASA's Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station: https:\/\/youtu.be\/aKtJBGgcPzY **\u00a0 See SpaceX Crew-2's view of space station as they depart - VideoFromSpace NASA's Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA's Thomas Pesquet are on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;In Space Infrastructure&quot;","block_context":{"text":"In Space Infrastructure","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bigelow-xbase-_20160808-001-300x232.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":23728,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23728","url_meta":{"origin":16574,"position":1},"title":"Videos: &#8220;Space to Ground&#8221; + Other ISS reports &#8211; April.5.2021","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest episode in NASA's Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station: https:\/\/youtu.be\/eAByh5rcH2k ** Port Relocation of SpaceX Crew Dragon on the International Space Station -\u00a0NASA On Monday, April 5 starting at 6 a.m. EDT, watch the first-ever port relocation for a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;In Space Infrastructure&quot;","block_context":{"text":"In Space Infrastructure","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bigelow-xbase-_20160808-001-300x232.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":25411,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=25411","url_meta":{"origin":16574,"position":2},"title":"Videos: \u201cSpace to Ground\u201d &#038; other space habitat reports \u2013 Oct.7.2022","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest episode in NASA's Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station: https:\/\/youtu.be\/56yo70bavDE ** Expedition 68 - NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight Day 1 Highlights - Oct. 5, 2022 -\u00a0NASA Video NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts lifted off at 12 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;In Space Infrastructure&quot;","block_context":{"text":"In Space Infrastructure","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bigelow-xbase-_20160808-001-300x232.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":23837,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23837","url_meta":{"origin":16574,"position":3},"title":"Videos: &#8220;Space to Ground&#8221; + Other ISS reports &#8211; Apr.30.2021","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest episode in NASA's Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station: https:\/\/youtu.be\/eJG6bdGlDK4 ** Crew-1 Astronauts Advance Research in Space -\u00a0NASA Johnson After six months aboard the International Space Station, NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts will return home on April 28, 2021. 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