{"id":102118,"date":"2020-02-09T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T17:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/eyes-to-the-skies-rocket-launch-to-be-visible-in-dc-region"},"modified":"2020-02-09T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T17:24:42","slug":"eyes-to-the-skies-rocket-launch-to-be-visible-in-dc-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/eyes-to-the-skies-rocket-launch-to-be-visible-in-dc-region","title":{"rendered":"Eyes to the skies: Rocket launch to be visible in DC region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eyes-to-the-skies-rocket-launch-to-be-visible-in-dc-region2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/wallops\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> is scheduled to launch a rocket tonight that will be visible to the DMV as it climbs into the sunset sky.<\/p>\n<p>The facility hopes to launch the 13th Northrop Grumman resupply mission to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/news\/ng-13-research-highlights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) at 5:39 p.m. near sunset. The Cygnus cargo ship (spacecraft) is the S.S. Robert H. Lawrence, named for the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/northropgrumman\/2020\/02\/07\/ng-13-cygnus-named-for-maj-robert-h-lawrence-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first ever African American selected as an astronaut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The launch and mission will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-tv-coverage-set-for-cygnus-launch-to-international-space-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carried live by NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Wallops Flight Facility is scheduled to launch a rocket tonight that will be visible to the DMV as it climbs into the sunset sky. The facility hopes to launch the 13th Northrop Grumman resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) at 5:39 p.m. near sunset. The Cygnus cargo ship (spacecraft) is the S.S. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102118","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=102118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}