{"id":15602,"date":"2016-04-09T01:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-spacex-lands-rocket-on-drone-ship-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2016-04-09T01:50:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T17:50:29","slug":"video-spacex-lands-rocket-on-drone-ship-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-spacex-lands-rocket-on-drone-ship-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: SpaceX lands rocket on drone ship for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/162128834\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 booster steered toward a first-ever landing on a drone ship floating 185 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean minutes after blasting off from Florida with a space station cargo ship.<\/p>\n<p>The 156-foot-tall booster, slowed by one of its Merlin rocket engines, descended to the football field-sized vessel about 8 minutes, 35 seconds after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 took off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad at 4:43:31 p.m. EDT (2043:31 GMT) with a Dragon cargo capsule heading for the International Space Station with 3.5 tons of supplies and experiments.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has landed a Falcon 9 booster on the ground before, but Friday\u2019s recovery marked the first time the rocket has successfully touched down on a floating landing platform after four previous tries.<\/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 booster steered toward a first-ever landing on a drone ship floating 185 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean minutes after blasting off from Florida with a space station cargo ship. The 156-foot-tall booster, slowed by one of its Merlin rocket engines, descended to the football field-sized vessel about 8 [&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":[3353,1573,479,991,311,316,3426],"class_list":["post-15602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asds","tag-drone-ship","tag-falcon-9","tag-of-course-i-still-love-you","tag-reusability","tag-spacex","tag-spacex-8"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15602"}],"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=15602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}