{"id":83503,"date":"2018-10-10T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/elon-musk-shares-spacex-falcon-9-image-that-highlights-its-true-size"},"modified":"2018-10-10T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:02:21","slug":"elon-musk-shares-spacex-falcon-9-image-that-highlights-its-true-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/elon-musk-shares-spacex-falcon-9-image-that-highlights-its-true-size","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Shares SpaceX Falcon 9 Image That Highlights Its True Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-shares-spacex-falcon-9-image-that-highlights-its-true-size.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 is impressive, but based on launch photos it can be hard to get a sense of the true scale of the craft. On Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk shared an image that shows himself alongside three figures, standing next to a freshly-landed Falcon 9. The image gives a clear indication of how the craft appears in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Musk shared the image below with the caption \u201cAt Falcon LZ-1 Vandenberg on Sunday night with the Base Commander. Support of [United States Air Force] much appreciated.\u201d The image was taken just after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49677-spacex-elon-musk-shares-incredible-photos-from-landmark-falcon-9-launch\">Sunday\u2019s launch<\/a>, which saw the SAOCOM 1A satellite sent up from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, before the first stage booster landed on the firm\u2019s brand new west coast landing pad. The whole craft measures 229.6 feet tall, with a 12-foot diameter. The composite fairing, which houses the satellite entering orbit, measures 43 feet with a 17-foot diameter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49677-spacex-elon-musk-shares-incredible-photos-from-landmark-falcon-9-launch\">Elon Musk Shares Incredible Photos From SpaceX\u2019s Landmark Falcon 9 Launch<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49752-spacex-elon-musk-shares-falcon-9-image-that-highlights-its-true-size\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49752-spacex-elon-musk-share...-true-size<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 is impressive, but based on launch photos it can be hard to get a sense of the true scale of the craft. On Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk shared an image that shows himself alongside three figures, standing next to a freshly-landed Falcon 9. The image gives a clear indication of how 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":[2019,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83503","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=83503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}