{"id":13973,"date":"2018-01-13T05:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13973"},"modified":"2018-01-13T05:57:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:57:06","slug":"launch-and-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13973","title":{"rendered":"Launch and Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1801\/DSC_0022-Edit1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>A composite of three consecutive exposures, this night skyscape follows the January 7 launch and first stage landing of a Falcon 9 rocket from a beach on planet Earth&#8217;s space coast. With the launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the bright streak beginning farthest left traces the initial phase of the rocket&#8217;s flight. A visible upward hook marks the first stage beginning its return trajectory with a &#8220;boostback burn&#8221; near the top of the arc, while the second stage separates and continues toward orbit. Above the top of the launch arc due to perspective, a bright streak shows the returning first stage slowing and descending toward the Cape. Centered below, the streak at the horizon is a 17 second burn finally slowing the first stage to a successful vertical landing about 8 minutes after launch at Landing Zone 1. During the scene&#8217;s effective long exposure time, the background stars leave short trails in the night sky of the rotating planet. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2Fssgp1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A composite of three consecutive exposures, this night skyscape follows the January 7 launch and first stage landing of a Falcon 9 rocket from a beach on planet Earth&#8217;s space <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13973\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-13973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13974,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973\/revisions\/13974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}