{"id":218026,"date":"2017-07-03T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=218026"},"modified":"2017-07-03T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:50:00","slug":"re-used-spacex-dragon-capsule-completes-second-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/218026-re-used-spacex-dragon-capsule-completes-second-flight.html","title":{"rendered":"Re-used SpaceX Dragon capsule completes second flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX&#8217;s re-used Dragon capsule has returned to earth, following a resupply mission to the ISS, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/07\/03\/spacexs-first-re-flown-dragon-capsule-successfully-returns-to-earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This makes SpaceX the first entity to re-fly a commercial spacecraft to the ISS and back.<\/p>\n<p>The capsule conducted its first flight in September 2014 and was refurbished before its second launch in June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragon capsule took supplies to the ISS, astronauts unloaded them, and it returned to earth &#8211;\u00a0landing in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/216956-spacex-launches-two-rockets-in-a-weekend.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">SpaceX launches two rockets in a weekend<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX&#8217;s re-used Dragon capsule has returned to earth, following a resupply mission to the ISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":218028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[44250,8855,11375],"class_list":["post-218026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-dragon","tag-iss","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218032,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218026\/revisions\/218032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}