{"id":154585,"date":"2026-02-13T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154585\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:38:11","slug":"spacex-rocket-lands-at-florida-launch-complex-in-company-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154585\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Rocket Lands at Florida Launch Complex, in Company Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster landed at the same launch complex it took off from on February 13, in a first for the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage streamed live by NASA shows the first-stage booster touching down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis marks the first time SpaceX has launched and landed a booster from the same launch complex in Florida,\u201d NASA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOn January 30, SpaceX announced Landing Zone 40 will serve as the primary landing site for Falcon 9 boosters performing return-to-launch site maneuvers going forward,\u201d the agency explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On the same day, NASA and SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/2022253660168953979\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:launched;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">launched<\/a> four astronauts to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster landed at the same launch complex it took off from on February&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,38777,11969,74509,45085],"class_list":{"0":"post-154585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-launch-complex","12":"tag-nasa","13":"tag-primary-landing-site","14":"tag-spacex-falcon-9"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}