{"id":185742,"date":"2014-08-24T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/24\/bad-day-at-the-office-18\/"},"modified":"2014-08-24T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T01:57:00","slug":"bad-day-at-the-office-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/24\/bad-day-at-the-office-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Day at the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 390px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EgGVkw9zjI8\" width=\"380\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Bummer<\/i><\/div>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s latest booster just <a href=\"http:\/\/defensetech.org\/2014\/08\/23\/video-spacex-rocket-explodes-over-texas\/\">blew up shortly after launch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An experimental reusable rocket made by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. exploded over Texas on Friday, the company announced.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The test booster, known as the F9R and a successor to the Grasshopper rocket, self-destructed several hundred feet over the company\u2019s facility in McGregor after a problem was detected. There were no injuries.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThree engine F9R Dev1 vehicle auto-terminated during test flight,\u201d SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted. \u201cNo injuries or near injuries. Rockets are tricky.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a reason that it is called &#8220;Rocket Science&#8221;, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer SpaceX&#8217;s latest booster just blew up shortly after launch: An experimental reusable rocket made by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. exploded over Texas on Friday, the company announced. The test booster, known as the F9R and a successor to the Grasshopper rocket, self-destructed several hundred feet over the company\u2019s facility in McGregor after a problem &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1078,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-disaster","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185742"}],"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=185742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}