{"id":11975,"date":"2015-12-21T22:23:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T03:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2015-12-22T10:38:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:38:04","slug":"video-historic-first-spacex-booster-lands-at-the-cape-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11975","title":{"rendered":"Video: Historic first &#8211; SpaceX booster lands at the Cape after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbcomm.com\/en\/networks\/satellite\/orbcomm-og2\" target=\"_blank\">11 satellites<\/a> into orbit tonight and did something very special in addition &#8211; flew the first stage booster back to Cape Canaveral and landed it. Here is a video of the landing extracted from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O5bTbVbe4e4\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX webcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1B6oiLNyKKI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX put 11 satellites into orbit tonight and did something very special in addition &#8211; flew the first stage booster back to Cape Canaveral and landed it. Here is a video of the landing extracted from the SpaceX webcast:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-rockets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-379","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13934,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13934","url_meta":{"origin":11975,"position":0},"title":"Video: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends a Dragon to ISS and lands booster at Cape","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon spacecraft full of cargo heading to the International Space Station. 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