{"id":74723,"date":"2017-12-28T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/falcon-heavy-raised-on-pad-39a-for-first-time"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:09:40","slug":"falcon-heavy-raised-on-pad-39a-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/falcon-heavy-raised-on-pad-39a-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Falcon Heavy raised on pad 39A for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/falcon-heavy-raised-on-pad-39a-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s first Falcon Heavy rocket, made up of two previously-flown Falcon 9 boosters and a beefed up central core stage, made the trip to launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and was raised vertical Thursday for testing ahead of its first liftoff next month.<\/p>\n<p>The fully-assembled 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket will be the most powerful in the world when it blasts off, and Thursday\u2019s arrival atop pad 39A marks a major step toward readying the Falcon Heavy for flight.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX engineers are expected to conduct a fit check and complete other tests at pad 39A this week, followed by a hold-down firing of all 27 first stage engines some time after New Year\u2019s Day. The company has not set a target date for the Falcon Heavy\u2019s first liftoff, but officials say the launch is targeted in January, some time after the hold-down hotfire test.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2017\/12\/28\/falcon-heavy-raised-on-pad-39a-for-first-time\/\">https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2017\/12\/28\/falcon-heavy-raised-on...irst-time\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s first Falcon Heavy rocket, made up of two previously-flown Falcon 9 boosters and a beefed up central core stage, made the trip to launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and was raised vertical Thursday for testing ahead of its first liftoff next month. The fully-assembled 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74723","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74864,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74723\/revisions\/74864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}