{"id":191,"date":"2013-01-23T22:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2013-01-23T22:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:29:50","slug":"the-xichang-launch-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"The Xichang launch disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anatoly Zak<\/a> writes about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xichang_Satellite_Launch_Center#1996_Launch_accident\" target=\"_blank\">launch disaster at Xichang<\/a> on February 15, 1996 and includes information from an American who was at the launch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/history-of-flight\/Disaster-at-Xichang-187496561.html\" target=\"_d\">Disaster at Xichang:\u00a0<em>An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about history\u2019s worst launch accident\u00a0<\/em> &#8211; Air &amp; Space Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the launch and of the village the next day:<\/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\/2qVaXFhu7NE?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>Anatoly Zak writes about the launch disaster at Xichang on February 15, 1996 and includes information from an American who was at the launch: Disaster at Xichang:\u00a0An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about history\u2019s worst launch accident\u00a0 &#8211; Air &amp; Space Magazine. Here&#8217;s a video of the launch and of the village the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Xichang launch disaster<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-35","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5479,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5479","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"China to launch lunar lander\/rover","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chinese\u00a0Chang\u2019e 3\u00a0lunar lander\/rover combo is set to launch this Monday, December 2nd at 1:20 am local time (Sunday, 12:20 pm EST, 5:20 pm GMT) from the the Xichang space center in Sichuan province in southwestern China. 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