{"id":919,"date":"2017-09-09T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2024-08-08T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T00:28:05","slug":"spacex-autonomously-landing-their-rocket-will-never-get-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/09\/spacex-autonomously-landing-their-rocket-will-never-get-old\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Autonomously Landing Their Rocket Will Never Get Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 2PM on the 7th SpaceX launched the\u00a0Boeing X-37B and once again\u00a0completed autonomously landing of stage 1. Watching the landing still hasn&#8217;t gotten old even though this is their 26th time trying it. Of those 26 tries there&#8217;s been 6 unsuccessful attempts at landing, all of them on their drone ship. The last 12 attempts have all been successful.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s mission to launch the semi-secret\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boeing_X-37B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boeing X-37B space plane<\/a>\u00a0gave an amazing view of the world and Florida as it gracefully fell to Earth. Words can&#8217;t do it justice, so I&#8221;ll just let YouTube take it away from here. Take three minutes out of your busy day, relax and watch some of the most complex machinery in human history land a 14 story high stage one rocket flawlessly.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9M6Zvi-fFv4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=1125&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>More Space Adventures To Come<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another photo of the actual launch event, more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spacex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flickr<\/a>. Later this month SpaceX and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/29\/the-tesla-model-3-arrives\/\">Tesla<\/a> CEO Elon Musk is supposed to elaborate on his plans for sending people to Mars. It&#8217;s most likely this will be outlined on the 28th at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iac2017.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IAC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-920 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SpaceX-Launch-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Autonomously Landing\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SpaceX-Launch-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SpaceX-Launch-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SpaceX-Launch-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SpaceX-Launch.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been almost a full year since he presented his initial plan at <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A1YxNYiyALg?t=20m54s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last years IAC here<\/a>. It should be quite the interesting follow up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2PM on the 7th SpaceX launched the\u00a0Boeing X-37B and once again\u00a0completed autonomously landing of stage 1. Watching the landing still hasn&#8217;t gotten old even though this is their 26th time trying it. Of those 26 tries there&#8217;s been 6 unsuccessful attempts at landing, all of them on their drone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,39,125],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-news","category-space","tag-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SpaceX-Launch.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92j6e-eP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}