{"id":88215,"date":"2019-02-27T16:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-booster-survived-a-spicy-landing-at-sea-after-launching-the-first-private-moon-mission"},"modified":"2019-02-27T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:44:37","slug":"spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-booster-survived-a-spicy-landing-at-sea-after-launching-the-first-private-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-booster-survived-a-spicy-landing-at-sea-after-launching-the-first-private-moon-mission","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket booster survived a \u2018spicy\u2019 landing at sea after launching the first private moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-booster-survived-a-spicy-landing-at-sea-after-launching-the-first-private-moon-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force had said there was about a 20% chance that the launch would be delayed because of bad weather. But the 23-story Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on time on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>After the booster\u2019s landing, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk <a href=https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1098767597858779136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1098767597858779136&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.teslarati.com%2Fspacex-challenging-falcon-9-landing%2F target=_blank >tweeted<\/a>: \u201cHighest reentry heating to date. Burning metal sparks from base heat shield visible in landing video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the mission and landing, narrated by SpaceX staff, <a href=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=1226&v=XS0E35aYJcU > here<\/a>, though this clip shows the booster\u2019s heat shield burning off.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/falcon-9-spicy-landing-spacex-droneship-video-2019-2\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/falcon-9-spicy-landing-space...2019&#45;2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force had said there was about a 20% chance that the launch would be delayed because of bad weather. But the 23-story Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on time on Thursday. After the booster\u2019s landing, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted: \u201cHighest reentry heating to date. Burning metal sparks from base heat shield visible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88215","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=88215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}