{"id":5231,"date":"2013-11-08T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2013-11-08T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:54:19","slug":"morpheus-lander-does-takeoff-and-landing-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5231","title":{"rendered":"Morpheus lander does takeoff and landing test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morpheuslander.jsc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Project Morpheus<\/a>\u00a0flew their vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle today. While still on a tether, it started from the ground and ended on the ground for the first time. They will now move the vehicle from NASA JSC in Houston to the Kennedy Space Center for untethered flights.<\/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\/uL_Pkz-U9kU?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>Project Morpheus\u00a0flew their vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle today. While still on a tether, it started from the ground and ended on the ground for the first time. They will now move the vehicle from NASA JSC in Houston to the Kennedy Space Center for untethered flights.<\/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":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1mn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6090,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6090","url_meta":{"origin":5231,"position":0},"title":"Videos: NASA Morpheus rocket vehicle flies again","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA's\u00a0Project Morpheus\u00a0flew their Armadillo Aerospace\u00a0quad-style vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle again on Thursday at Kennedy Space Center. 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