{"id":881552,"date":"2026-10-14T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881552\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:22:09","slug":"photos-spacex-falcon-9-launch-lights-up-western-north-carolina-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881552\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: SpaceX Falcon 9 launch lights up western North Carolina sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 The launch of SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 rocket lit up the skies over western North Carolina on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/spacestation\/2026\/10\/13\/spacex-dragon-lifts-off-for-thursday-cargo-delivery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CRS-35 mission<\/a> launched supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida&#8217;s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:33 a.m. EDT Tuesday. It&#8217;s expected to arrive at the ISS Thursday, Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/ab-tech-asheville-buncombe-technical-community-college-instructor-student-oil-experiment-launch-spacex-mission-florida-spaceflight-experiments-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A-B TECH STUDENT&#8217;S OIL EXPERIMENT LAUNCHES ON SPACEX MISSION<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rocket&#8217;s trail was clearly visible in western North Carolina, with viewers across the mountains sharing photos and videos of the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>You can share your photos and videos with us through <a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/chimein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chime In<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 The launch of SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 rocket lit up the skies over western North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-881552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881552","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=881552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}