{"id":103515,"date":"2020-03-09T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/spacex-makes-history-with-50th-rocket-landing"},"modified":"2020-03-09T14:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:23:34","slug":"spacex-makes-history-with-50th-rocket-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/spacex-makes-history-with-50th-rocket-landing","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Makes History With 50th Rocket Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-makes-history-with-50th-rocket-landing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL (CBSMiami\/AP) \u2014 SpaceX made history this weekend when it successfully landed its 50th rocket after launching another load of station supplies for NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon rocket blasted off with 4,300 pounds (1,950 kilograms) of equipment and experiments for the International Space Station. Just minutes later, the spent first-stage booster made a dramatic midnight landing back at Cape Canaveral, its return accompanied by sonic booms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the Falcon has landed for the 50th time in SpaceX history!\u201d SpaceX engineer Jessica Anderson announced amid cheers at Mission Control. \u201cWhat an amazing live view all the way to touchdown.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL (CBSMiami\/AP) \u2014 SpaceX made history this weekend when it successfully landed its 50th rocket after launching another load of station supplies for NASA. The Falcon rocket blasted off with 4,300 pounds (1,950 kilograms) of equipment and experiments for the International Space Station. Just minutes later, the spent first-stage booster made a dramatic midnight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103515","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=103515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}