{"id":110388,"date":"2020-07-24T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/spacex-may-fly-a-first-full-size-prototype-of-its-mars-starship-rocket-later-this-week-says-musk"},"modified":"2020-07-24T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:22:18","slug":"spacex-may-fly-a-first-full-size-prototype-of-its-mars-starship-rocket-later-this-week-says-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/spacex-may-fly-a-first-full-size-prototype-of-its-mars-starship-rocket-later-this-week-says-musk","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX May Fly A First Full-Size Prototype Of Its Mars Starship Rocket \u2018Later This Week\u2019 Says Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-may-fly-a-first-full-size-prototype-of-its-mars-starship-rocket-later-this-week-says-musk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has said that SpaceX\u2019s latest Starship prototype may fly for the first time this week, as the company continues its efforts to get the ambitious spacecraft up and running ahead of planned flights to the Moon and Mars.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vIh4aLX3cZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Starship is SpaceX\u2019s proposed spacecraft to transport up to 100 humans at a time \u2013 or maybe more \u2013 to the Red Planet. The company has been rapidly building prototypes of the giant steel rocket at a test site in Boca Chica, Texas, with the goal of eventually finding a design that works.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple iterations have come and gone so far, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vIh4aLX3cZQ\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vIh4aLX3cZQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"several explosions\">several explosions<\/a> along the way. But in a tweet yesterday, Tuesday, 21 July, Musk said the latest version \u2013 SN5, or serial number 5 \u2013 will \u2018attempt to fly later this week\u2019. That will be preceded by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-flight-debut-elon-musk-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-flight-debut-elon-musk-details\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"static fire test\">static fire test<\/a> at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has said that SpaceX\u2019s latest Starship prototype may fly for the first time this week, as the company continues its efforts to get the ambitious spacecraft up and running ahead of planned flights to the Moon and Mars. Starship is SpaceX\u2019s proposed spacecraft to transport up to 100 humans at a time \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110388","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}