{"id":14864,"date":"2017-02-18T18:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T10:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-on-the-eve-of-its-first-launch-from-pad-39a\/"},"modified":"2017-02-18T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T10:55:14","slug":"photos-falcon-9-rocket-on-the-eve-of-its-first-launch-from-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-on-the-eve-of-its-first-launch-from-pad-39a\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 rocket on the eve of its first launch from pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon supply ship received their final cargo load Friday before a hydraulic lift raised the 20-story booster vertical atop launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n

The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket is taking off from pad 39A for the first time, and flying for the 30th time overall since June 2010.<\/p>\n

Liftoff is set for Saturday at 10:01 a.m. EST (1501 GMT) on a resupply run to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

These photos show the rocket sitting on its side Friday afternoon, as well as views of the Falcon 9 vertical at pad 39A at sunset earlier in the week, and after raising to the vertical position Friday night.<\/p>\n

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Credit: NASA\/Glenn Benson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Glenn Benson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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

SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon supply ship received their final cargo load Friday before a hydraulic lift raised the 20-story booster vertical atop launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket is taking off from pad 39A for the first time, and flying for the 30th time overall since June […]<\/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":[1395,159,479,717,1602,428,1702,3404],"class_list":["post-14864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dragon","tag-earth-observation","tag-falcon-9","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss-cargo","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-launch-pad-39a","tag-sage-3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864"}],"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=14864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}