{"id":881090,"date":"2026-10-13T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881090\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:58:09","slug":"did-you-see-it-spacex-launch-visible-in-nc-skies-tuesday-morning-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881090\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you see it? SpaceX launch visible in NC skies Tuesday morning :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX launch was visible in North Carolina skies on Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Oct. 13 at 6:33 a.m. Eastern time.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of WRAL viewers sent photos of the launch to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/report-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WRAL ReportIt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This launch created a vapor trail that resembled a jellyfish.<\/p>\n<p>WRAL meteorologist Chris Michaels explains, &#8220;The sun is low on the horizon in the eastern sky, illuminating the vapor trail as it zooms northeast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The resupply CRS-35 mission (Dragon\u2019s 35th Commercial Resupply Services), is\u00a0an approximate 52-hour flight. According to SpaceX, Dragon will autonomously dock with the orbiting laboratory on Thursday at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">You can watch the launch on SpaceX social media pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/weather\/space-x-launch-north-carolina-august-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In August, viewers captured spectacular photos and video<\/a> of another SpaceX launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX launch was visible in North Carolina skies on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 The Falcon 9 rocket launched from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193,1513],"class_list":["post-881090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}