{"id":16397,"date":"2015-04-15T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-spacex-rocket-booster-crash-lands-on-barge\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T18:12:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T10:12:25","slug":"video-spacex-rocket-booster-crash-lands-on-barge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-spacex-rocket-booster-crash-lands-on-barge\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: SpaceX rocket booster crash lands on barge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Falcon 9 rocket booster \u2014 under the power of a single Merlin 1D engine \u2014 descends toward a specially-outfitted ocean landing platform off Florida\u2019s East Coast on Tuesday in a brief video clip released by SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket tipped over moments after touching down on the barge, which was parked in the Atlantic Ocean 200 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida. SpaceX says the first stage did not survive the landing.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is experimenting with recovering Falcon 9 rocket stages in hopes of reusing the boosters on future missions, an achievement officials say would reduce the cost of space launches.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s upper stage continued into orbit with an unmanned Dragon supply ship hauling up cargo for the crew on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/euEpIVegiIx\/embed\/simple\" width=\"678\" height=\"678\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Falcon 9 rocket booster \u2014 under the power of a single Merlin 1D engine \u2014 descends toward a specially-outfitted ocean landing platform off Florida\u2019s East Coast on Tuesday in a brief video clip released by SpaceX. The rocket tipped over moments after touching down on the barge, which was parked in the Atlantic Ocean [&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":[3353,479,4084,311,316,4054],"class_list":["post-16397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asds","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-flight-18","tag-reusability","tag-spacex","tag-spacex-6"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16397"}],"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=16397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}