{"id":14667,"date":"2017-05-01T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/watch-spectacular-video-of-mondays-falcon-9-blastoff-and-landing\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T11:44:18","slug":"watch-spectacular-video-of-mondays-falcon-9-blastoff-and-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/watch-spectacular-video-of-mondays-falcon-9-blastoff-and-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch spectacular video of Monday\u2019s Falcon 9 blastoff and landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/215497985?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket took off from the historic seaside launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center on Monday and powered a classified NRO spy satellite into space, then the launcher\u2019s first stage descended to a vertical landing at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, producing spectacular video as the booster maneuvered in the morning sky.<\/p>\n<p>This video shows the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket\u2019s launch at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT), stage separation, then landing about nine minutes later. Powerful long-range tracking cameras kept watch of the Falcon 9\u2019s 14-story first stage throughout the flight, showing its flip maneuver and three braking burns to slow down for landing.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s mission marked the 33rd flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and the fourth time one of the vehicle\u2019s first stages has landed at Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\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>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket took off from the historic seaside launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center on Monday and powered a classified NRO spy satellite into space, then the launcher\u2019s first stage descended to a vertical landing at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, producing spectacular video as the booster maneuvered in the [&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":[1665,291,479,1950,1702,848,3302,311],"class_list":["post-14667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ball-aerospace","tag-commercial-space","tag-falcon-9","tag-landing-zone-1","tag-launch-pad-39a","tag-national-reconnaissance-office","tag-nrol-76","tag-reusability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667"}],"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=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}