{"id":282282,"date":"2026-02-13T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:52:07","slug":"watch-moment-falcon-9-blasts-off-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282282\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch moment Falcon 9 blasts off to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The four astronauts that make up SpaceX Crew-12 have began their journey to the International Space Station (ISS). <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Nasa&#8217;s Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, the European Space Agency&#8217;s Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos&#8217;s Andrey Fedyaev are all aboard the Falcon 9 rocket as it travels 34 hours to its destination. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The crew will spend eight months on the ISS, replacing a team that <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c4glz3pklkzt\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">evacuated the station last month due to a medical emergency. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Crew-12 is grateful and ready for the journey ahead&#8221;, mission commander Jessica Meir said after the launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four astronauts that make up SpaceX Crew-12 have began their journey to the International Space Station (ISS).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-282282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}