{"id":12799,"date":"2019-12-04T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-in-the-starting-blocks-for-space-station-resupply-run\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:03:21","slug":"photos-falcon-9-in-the-starting-blocks-for-space-station-resupply-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-in-the-starting-blocks-for-space-station-resupply-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 in the starting blocks for space station resupply run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:&nbsp;<\/strong>Launch attempt scrubbed Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Ready for a resupply run to the International Space Station, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was raised vertical at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday ahead of a planned liftoff with more than 5,700 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket and a Dragon supply ship is scheduled for liftoff from pad 40 at 12:51:58 p.m. EST (1751:58 GMT) Wednesday to begin a three-day trek to the space station.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9\u2019s first stage booster, designed No. 59 in SpaceX\u2019s inventory, is brand new. The Dragon capsule is a veteran of two previous trips to the space station in 2014 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>See our Mission Status Center for live coverage.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42076\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42076\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6739-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6739-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6739-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6739-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6739-copy-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42077\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42077\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6754-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6754-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6754-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6754-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6754-copy-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands 213 feet (65 meters) tall. Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42078\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42078\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6776-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6776-copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6776-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6776-copy-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6776-copy-678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42079\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42079\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6805-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6805-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6805-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6805-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6805-copy-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42080\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42080\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6841-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6841-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6841-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6841-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6841-copy-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four titanium grid fins will help guide the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s first stage booster toward landing on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42082\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42082\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6833-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6833-copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6833-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6833-copy-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6833-copy-678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dragon cargo capsule flying on the SpaceX CRS-19 mission previously flew to the station on the CRS-4 an CRS-11 resupply flights in 2014 and 2017. Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:&nbsp;Launch attempt scrubbed Dec. 4. Ready for a resupply run to the International Space Station, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was raised vertical at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday ahead of a planned liftoff with more than 5,700 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket and a Dragon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2432,291,1736,1395,2344,479,2434,717],"class_list":["post-12799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anheuser-busch","tag-commercial-space","tag-complex-40","tag-dragon","tag-expedition-61","tag-falcon-9","tag-hisui","tag-international-space-station"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}