{"id":9769,"date":"2019-03-01T17:53:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T00:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9769"},"modified":"2019-03-01T17:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T00:53:43","slug":"ripley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/ripley\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime tonight, hopefully, SpaceX will launch its latest innovation, the so-called Crew Dragon (aka Dragon 2). This is a variant of the reusable Dragon capsule that&#8217;s been ferrying supplies to the International Space Station for several years, but in this case, the intended cargo will be human beings. There won&#8217;t be any actual people on board tonight, though; this is only a test flight. But if it&#8217;s successful, Crew Dragon could be carrying real-live astronauts into space before the end of the year&#8230; the first time Americans will fly on an American spaceship since the shuttles were retired in 2011. I&#8217;m not generally prone to nationalism, but it can&#8217;t come soon enough in my view. It&#8217;s been a long eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Although Crew Dragon isn&#8217;t carrying a real crew tonight, it won&#8217;t be flying empty. There&#8217;s a mannequin on board, dressed in one of SpaceX&#8217;s sleek &#8216;n&#8217; fancy pressure suits, and equipped with various sensors to verify the forces a human body will be subjected to by this new ship. And you&#8217;ll never guess what SpaceX&#8217;s eccentric gazillionaire founder Elon Musk has dubbed the dummy: Ripley.<\/p>\n<p>As in the heroine of the <em>Alien<\/em> film franchise.<\/p>\n<p>He may be walk on an entirely different plane of existence than you and me, but when you get right down to it, he&#8217;s just a geek like the rest of us. Say it with me, kids:<\/p>\n<p>One of us, one of us, one us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"clipImage\" src=\"https:\/\/screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com\/images\/62015789-e94e-4d3d-8a0f-fcca253e5f2e.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime tonight, hopefully, SpaceX will launch its latest innovation, the so-called Crew Dragon (aka Dragon 2). This is a variant of the reusable Dragon capsule that&#8217;s been ferrying supplies to the International Space Station for several years, but in this case, the intended cargo will be human beings. There won&#8217;t be any actual people on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}