{"id":19724,"date":"2015-12-01T23:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/spacex-will-attempt-next-rocket-landing-at-cape-canaveral-instead-of-in-the-ocean"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:27","slug":"spacex-will-attempt-next-rocket-landing-at-cape-canaveral-instead-of-in-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/spacex-will-attempt-next-rocket-landing-at-cape-canaveral-instead-of-in-the-ocean","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Will Attempt Next Rocket Landing At Cape Canaveral Instead Of In The Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-will-attempt-next-rocket-landing-at-cape-canaveral-instead-of-in-the-ocean.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next time a SpaceX rocket touches down, it will be on solid ground.<\/p>\n<p><em>Florida Today<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/spacex\/2015\/12\/01\/spacex-wants-land-next-booster-cape-canaveral\/76576142\/?hootPostID=51a02065141bac49387e3bc3376c48a6\">broke the news<\/a> today that SpaceX was hoping to land its next Falcon 9 rocket on the ground at NASA\u2019s Cape Canaveral facility in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has attempted to land a rocket gently before, but those attempts were made on giant floating platforms in the ocean (which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/video-shows-just-how-close-spacex-got-landing-its-rocket\">just missed<\/a>). Then, last week, competitor Blue Origin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/blue-origin-beats-spacex-in-landing-reusable-rocket\">managed to land<\/a> it\u2019s own reusable rocket safely on the ground, amping up the public pressure on SpaceX to successfully land their own rocket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/spacex-will-attempt-next-rocket-landing-at-cape-canaveral?src=SOC&dom=fb\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time a SpaceX rocket touches down, it will be on solid ground. Florida Today broke the news today that SpaceX was hoping to land its next Falcon 9 rocket on the ground at NASA\u2019s Cape Canaveral facility in Florida. SpaceX has attempted to land a rocket gently before, but those attempts were made on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69088,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724\/revisions\/69088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}