{"id":16406,"date":"2015-04-13T20:50:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-awaits-launch-from-florida\/"},"modified":"2015-04-13T20:50:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T12:50:36","slug":"photos-falcon-9-rocket-awaits-launch-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-awaits-launch-from-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 rocket awaits launch from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s 20-story Falcon 9 rocket counts down to launch from Cape Canaveral on Monday with 2.2 tons of gear and experiments for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The 208-foot-tall launcher will blast off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad at 4:33 p.m. EDT (2033 GMT) to kick off a two-day pursuit of the space station by SpaceX\u2019s Dragon cargo capsule. The launch will mark the 17th mission of a Falcon 9 rocket and the sixth operational space station resupply run flown by SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p><b>Photo credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/&nbsp;Scriptunas Images<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5545\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8618.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8618\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8618.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8618-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5546\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8622.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8622\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8622.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8622-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5547\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8627.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8627\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8627.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8627-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5548\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8630.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8630\" width=\"620\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8630.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8630-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5549\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8629-2.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8629 2\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8629-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8629-2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5550\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8635-2.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8635 2\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8635-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Scriptunas_SpaceX_CRS-6-8635-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s 20-story Falcon 9 rocket counts down to launch from Cape Canaveral on Monday with 2.2 tons of gear and experiments for the International Space Station. The 208-foot-tall launcher will blast off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad at 4:33 p.m. EDT (2033 GMT) to kick off a two-day pursuit of the space station [&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":[1395,479,4073,1542,316,4054],"class_list":["post-16406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dragon","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-flight-17","tag-space-launch-complex-40","tag-spacex","tag-spacex-6"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406"}],"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=16406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}