{"id":14846,"date":"2017-02-23T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-soars-into-overcast-sky-from-pad-39a\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:22:04","slug":"photos-falcon-9-rocket-soars-into-overcast-sky-from-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-soars-into-overcast-sky-from-pad-39a\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 rocket soars into overcast sky from pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out one more gallery of photos from Sunday\u2019s blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>These images show the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s preflight preparations at pad 39A, the final loading of the Dragon supply ship with time-sensitive cargo, and the lifting of the 213-foot-tall (65-meter) booster vertical.<\/p>\n<p>The photos of the 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) launch come from remote sound-triggered cameras placed near the pad, and from the roof of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building around 3 miles (5 kilometers) away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22402\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22402\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0484-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0484-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0484-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0484-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22403\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22403\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0494.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0494-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0494-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22404\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22404\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0500-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0500-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0500-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22407\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22407\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0832.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0832.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0832-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0832-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22405\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22405\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0446.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0446-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0446-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22406\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22406\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0457.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0457-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0457-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22408\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22408\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0702.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0702-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0702-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22409\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22409\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0706-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0706-1.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-0706-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22410\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22410\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-8833.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-8833.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-8833-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WVWS_SpaceX_CRS10-8833-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/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>Check out one more gallery of photos from Sunday\u2019s blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. These images show the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s preflight preparations at pad 39A, the final loading of the Dragon supply ship with time-sensitive cargo, and the lifting of the 213-foot-tall [&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":[1395,479,717,1602,428,1702,316],"class_list":["post-14846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dragon","tag-falcon-9","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss-cargo","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-launch-pad-39a","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846"}],"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=14846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}