{"id":177942,"date":"2019-04-24T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/24\/bad-day-at-the-office-5\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:11:00","slug":"bad-day-at-the-office-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/24\/bad-day-at-the-office-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Day at the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/KygTR4o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/KygTR4o.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>The SpaceX Dragon crew capsule experienced an anomaly during testing at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center.<\/div>\n<p>In plain language, <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2019\/04\/20\/spacex-confirms-anomaly-during-crew-dragon-engine-test\/\">it blew up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are no repeated casualties:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An accident Saturday during an abort engine test on a Crew Dragon test vehicle at Cape Canaveral sent a reddish-orange plume into the sky visible for miles around, a setback for SpaceX and NASA as teams prepare the capsule for its first mission with astronauts. <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is testing the Crew Dragon ahead of the capsule\u2019s first test flight with astronauts later this year, following a successful <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2019\/03\/08\/spacex-crew-capsule-returns-to-earth-paving-the-way-for-human-launches\/\">Crew Dragon demonstration mission<\/a> to the International Space Station in early March. <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX confirmed the accident, first reported by Florida Today, in a statement Saturday evening. No injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier today, SpaceX conducted a series of engine tests on a Crew Dragon test vehicle on our test stand at Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral, Florida,\u201d a company spokesperson said. \u201cThe initial tests completed successfully but the final test resulted in an anomaly on the test stand.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The red plume in the photo is from the nitrogen tetroxide propellant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SpaceX Dragon crew capsule experienced an anomaly during testing at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center. In plain language, it blew up. There are no repeated casualties: An accident Saturday during an abort engine test on a Crew Dragon test vehicle at Cape Canaveral sent a reddish-orange plume into the sky visible for miles around, a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,510,419],"class_list":["post-177942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}