{"id":29594,"date":"2016-09-01T07:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/explosion-rocks-spacex-launch-site-in-florida-during-test"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:18:56","slug":"explosion-rocks-spacex-launch-site-in-florida-during-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/explosion-rocks-spacex-launch-site-in-florida-during-test","title":{"rendered":"Explosion rocks SpaceX launch site in Florida during test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/explosion-rocks-spacex-launch-site-in-florida-during-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whoops.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 An explosion rocked a SpaceX launch site Thursday during a routine rocket test.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred shortly after 9 a.m., according to NASA. The test was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is next to NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>Buildings several miles away shook from the blast, and multiple explosions continued for several minutes. Dark smoke filled the overcast sky. A half-hour later, a black cloud hung low across the eastern horizon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/92dd9cd24d6444c4a93855dd25e6d0c1\">http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/92dd9cd24d6444c4a93855dd25e6d0c1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 An explosion rocked a SpaceX launch site Thursday during a routine rocket test. SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred shortly after 9 a.m., according to NASA. The test was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29594","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66365,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29594\/revisions\/66365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}