{"id":59015,"date":"2026-08-19T19:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/incredible-spacex-rocket-spotted-off-christmas-island-coast\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:53:50","slug":"incredible-spacex-rocket-spotted-off-christmas-island-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/incredible-spacex-rocket-spotted-off-christmas-island-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Incredible&#8217;: SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A SpaceX rocket has made an unexpected appearance off Christmas Island after touching down in the Indian Ocean following a test flight from Texas on 24 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Watchorn, chair of the Christmas Island Tourism Association said he initially thought he was looking at ships on his way to work, before realising it was &#8220;a rocket, a space rocket&#8221; being towed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 52-metre long rocket has caused a stir among locals, with some &#8220;sneaking out&#8221; of work for a glimpse, and others preparing their boats for a closer look at the debris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really incredible to think about what it&#8217;s been through,&#8221; Watchorn told the BBC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The more and more you look at it, the more fascinating it&#8217;s becoming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c4gw160q3v3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX rocket has made an unexpected appearance off Christmas Island after touching down in the Indian Ocean following a test flight from Texas on 24 July. David Watchorn, chair of the Christmas Island Tourism Association said he initially thought he was looking at ships on his way to work, before realising it was &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[900,3563,12065,3142,1720,2315,1480],"class_list":["post-59015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-christmas","tag-coast","tag-incredible","tag-island","tag-rocket","tag-spacex","tag-spotted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59017,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59015\/revisions\/59017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}