{"id":13310,"date":"2019-03-01T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-stand-tall-at-pad-39a\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T19:13:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:13:58","slug":"photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-stand-tall-at-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-stand-tall-at-pad-39a\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon stand tall at pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"

These photos show the 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft at launch pad 39A, ready for liftoff Saturday from Florida\u2019s Space Coast on a critical test flight to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

Liftoff from pad 39A is scheduled for 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) to begin a 27-hour trek to the station, demonstrating SpaceX\u2019s new human-rated capsule before astronauts ride it on a space mission later this year.<\/p>\n

Follow our live coverage in our Mission Status Center.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These photos show the 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft at launch pad 39A, ready for liftoff Saturday from Florida\u2019s Space Coast on a critical test flight to the International Space Station. Liftoff from pad 39A is scheduled for 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) to begin a 27-hour trek to the station, […]<\/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":[524,291,235,2657,2704,479,1545,717],"class_list":["post-13310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-crew","tag-commercial-space","tag-crew-dragon","tag-crew-dragon-demo-1","tag-expedition-58","tag-falcon-9","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-international-space-station"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310"}],"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=13310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}