{"id":121729,"date":"2021-04-19T04:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/starship-sn15-prepares-for-flight-following-major-nasa-vindication"},"modified":"2021-04-19T04:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T11:22:47","slug":"starship-sn15-prepares-for-flight-following-major-nasa-vindication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/starship-sn15-prepares-for-flight-following-major-nasa-vindication","title":{"rendered":"Starship SN15 prepares for flight following major NASA vindication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/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\/bWpyhXZNZAc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Starship SN15 is expected to undergo a Static Fire test as early as Tuesday to clear the path for a test flight no earlier than Wednesday as SpaceX\u2019s rapidly reusable interplanetary launch and landing system gained a massive sign of NASA approval \u2013 and a ton of government cash to boot.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX was the sole winner of NASA\u2019s initial Human Landing System (HLS) award worth in total more than $2.9 billion, meaning the human return to the Moon\u2019s surface will be via Starship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starship SN15 is expected to undergo a Static Fire test as early as Tuesday to clear the path for a test flight no earlier than Wednesday as SpaceX\u2019s rapidly reusable interplanetary launch and landing system gained a massive sign of NASA approval \u2013 and a ton of government cash to boot. SpaceX was the sole [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121729","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=121729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}