{"id":107376,"date":"2020-05-21T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-now-dominates-rocket-flight-bringing-big-benefits-and-risks-to-nasa"},"modified":"2020-05-23T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T17:02:18","slug":"spacex-now-dominates-rocket-flight-bringing-big-benefits-and-risks-to-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-now-dominates-rocket-flight-bringing-big-benefits-and-risks-to-nasa","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX now dominates rocket flight, bringing big benefits\u2014and risks\u2014to NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-now-dominates-rocket-flight-bringing-big-benefits-and-risks-to-nasa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers see both benefits and risks in the company\u2019s increasing power. It has lowered the cost of spaceflight through innovations such as reusable stages and fairings, saving NASA money. With its outsize capacity, Starship could cheaply put large telescopes in orbit and heavy science experiments on moons and planets. Yet SpaceX, with a fast-and-loose Silicon Valley mindset, has overlooked the potential for its technologies to contaminate night skies and pristine planets. Some worry the company, led by brazen billionaire Elon Musk, could jeopardize NASA\u2019s long-standing culture of safety. \u201cNASA tries to model everything to the nth degree,\u201d says David Todd, an analyst at Seradata, which tracks launches and satellites. \u201cSpaceX works on the basis of \u2018test it until it breaks.\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>First commercial crew flight deepens ties between company and space agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers see both benefits and risks in the company\u2019s increasing power. It has lowered the cost of spaceflight through innovations such as reusable stages and fairings, saving NASA money. With its outsize capacity, Starship could cheaply put large telescopes in orbit and heavy science experiments on moons and planets. Yet SpaceX, with a fast-and-loose Silicon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107516,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107376\/revisions\/107516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}