{"id":875,"date":"2009-07-13T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2009\/07\/13\/spacex-update-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-13T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T23:25:00","slug":"spacex-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2009\/07\/13\/spacex-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is now estimating a launch time of 7:30 PM Pacific Time for the launch of their Falcon 1 rocket.  <\/p>\n<p>Falcon 1 is a two stage, liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene (RP-1) powered launch vehicle.  It is entirely privately funded.  This will be the fifth launch of a Falcon 1.  The first three launches failed to achieve orbit.  The previous launch, their fourth, was their first successful launch to orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Falcon 9, a larger version of this rocket, is a human-rated rocket designed to ferry the Dragon spaceship, which can carry up to seven people, to low earth orbit.  SpaceX was granted a 1.6 billion dollar contract from NASA to ferry cargo to the International Space Station using a cargo version of the Dragon.  The first launch of a Falcon 9 is scheduled for later this year.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is now estimating a launch time of 7:30 PM Pacific Time for the launch of their Falcon 1 rocket. Falcon 1 is a two stage, liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene (RP-1) powered launch vehicle. It is entirely privately &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2009\/07\/13\/spacex-update-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}