{"id":114664,"date":"2020-10-18T22:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-awards-spacex-53-million-for-orbital-starship-refueling-test"},"modified":"2020-10-18T22:32:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:32:31","slug":"nasa-awards-spacex-53-million-for-orbital-starship-refueling-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-awards-spacex-53-million-for-orbital-starship-refueling-test","title":{"rendered":"NASA Awards SpaceX $53 Million for Orbital Starship Refueling Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-awards-spacex-53-million-for-orbital-starship-refueling-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Refueling in orbit is a crucial step for SpaceX to allow its Starship spacecraft to make the journey to faraway places, including the Moon and Mars. The idea is to launch multiple Starships, some destined to top up others while in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCombining Starship\u2019s rapid reusability with orbital refilling is critical to economically transporting large numbers of crew and cargo to the Moon and Mars,\u201d SpaceX wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1316417597257129985\">in a tweet<\/a> celebrating the news.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is contracting SpaceX to demonstrate the transfer of ten metric tons of liquid oxygen propellant between one Starship and another, a collaboration with NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center and the Marshall Space Flight Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refueling in orbit is a crucial step for SpaceX to allow its Starship spacecraft to make the journey to faraway places, including the Moon and Mars. The idea is to launch multiple Starships, some destined to top up others while in orbit. \u201cCombining Starship\u2019s rapid reusability with orbital refilling is critical to economically transporting large [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114664","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}