{"id":83354,"date":"2018-10-07T13:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/watch-spacex-attempt-to-land-its-falcon-9-rocket-on-the-california-coast-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:00:17","slug":"watch-spacex-attempt-to-land-its-falcon-9-rocket-on-the-california-coast-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/watch-spacex-attempt-to-land-its-falcon-9-rocket-on-the-california-coast-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX attempt to land its Falcon 9 rocket on the California coast for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vr_C6LQ7mHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This evening, SpaceX is set to launch a used Falcon 9 rocket from California, a flight that will be followed by one of the company\u2019s signature rocket landings. But this time around, SpaceX will attempt to land the vehicle on a concrete landing pad near the launch site \u2014 not a drone ship in the ocean. If successful, it\u2019ll be the first time that the company does a ground landing on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, all of SpaceX\u2019s ground landings have occurred out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, the company\u2019s busiest launch site. SpaceX has two landing pads there, and has managed to touch down 11 Falcon 9 rockets on them. And each time the company has attempted to land on land, it\u2019s been a success.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/7\/17947518\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-vandenberg-california-landing-watch-live\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/7\/17947518\/spacex-falcon-9-...watch-live<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, SpaceX is set to launch a used Falcon 9 rocket from California, a flight that will be followed by one of the company\u2019s signature rocket landings. But this time around, SpaceX will attempt to land the vehicle on a concrete landing pad near the launch site \u2014 not a drone ship in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83354","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=83354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83371,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83354\/revisions\/83371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}