{"id":14869,"date":"2017-02-17T01:41:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/time-lapse-fully-assembed-falcon-9-rocket-lifted-atop-launch-pad-39a\/"},"modified":"2017-02-17T01:41:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:41:12","slug":"time-lapse-fully-assembed-falcon-9-rocket-lifted-atop-launch-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/time-lapse-fully-assembed-falcon-9-rocket-lifted-atop-launch-pad-39a\/","title":{"rendered":"Time lapse: Fully-assembed Falcon 9 rocket lifted atop launch pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/204467788\" width=\"678\" height=\"509\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket is again standing on launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this time with a Dragon supply ship on top ready to head on a resupply run to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-minute process to raise the 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A was completed shortly after 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) Thursday, allowing SpaceX to complete final tests with a fully-assembled booster at the launch facility for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket previously stood on the launch pad Sunday for a hold-down engine firing, but the launcher was without its payload for that test.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket will be lowered again Friday to pack \u201clate load\u201d cargo inside the Dragon supply ship, including mice to be examined for signs muscle and tissue loss in microgravity.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket will go vertical again some time Friday evening ahead of Saturday\u2019s final countdown.<\/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 is again standing on launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this time with a Dragon supply ship on top ready to head on a resupply run to the International Space Station. The 20-minute process to raise the 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A was completed [&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":[1395,3292,479,717,1602,1702,3402,3404],"class_list":["post-14869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dragon","tag-expedition-50","tag-falcon-9","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss-cargo","tag-launch-pad-39a","tag-raven","tag-sage-3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14869"}],"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=14869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}