{"id":14347,"date":"2017-09-09T19:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T11:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-lifts-off-and-lands-at-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2017-09-09T19:08:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T11:08:51","slug":"photos-falcon-9-rocket-lifts-off-and-lands-at-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-lifts-off-and-lands-at-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off and lands at Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Kennedy Space Center\u2019s launch pad 39A on Thursday, then its first stage booster touched down on a nearby landing target after sending a U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane toward orbit.<\/p>\n

The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off from pad 39A at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) with the U.S. Air Force\u2019s X-37B spaceplane, a robotic miniature space shuttle that can operate without a crew for years in orbit, then return to landing on a runway.<\/p>\n

It was the 41st launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since the first version of SpaceX\u2019s primary launcher debuted in June 2010, and the 13th Falcon 9 flight of the year.<\/p>\n

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