{"id":101221,"date":"2020-01-22T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/these-photos-of-spacexs-crew-dragon-abort-launch-are-just-stunning"},"modified":"2020-01-22T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:23:21","slug":"these-photos-of-spacexs-crew-dragon-abort-launch-are-just-stunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/these-photos-of-spacexs-crew-dragon-abort-launch-are-just-stunning","title":{"rendered":"These photos of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon abort launch are just stunning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-photos-of-spacexs-crew-dragon-abort-launch-are-just-stunning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday (Jan. 19), SpaceX\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18852-spacex-dragon.html\">Crew Dragon<\/a> launched on a brilliant a high-altitude test of its launch escape system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a> founder and CEO Elon Musk called the in-flight abort test flight \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-abort-elon-musk-reaction.html\" target=\"_blank\">picture perfect<\/a>,\u201d and, in looking at the stunning images of the test, he was absolutely right. Following a weather delay, Crew Dragon lifted off at 10:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT) atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday (Jan. 19), SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon launched on a brilliant a high-altitude test of its launch escape system. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk called the in-flight abort test flight \u201cpicture perfect,\u201d and, in looking at the stunning images of the test, he was absolutely right. Following a weather delay, Crew Dragon lifted off [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}