{"id":123776,"date":"2021-06-13T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T02:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/is-the-space-force-about-to-acquire-spacex-starships"},"modified":"2021-06-13T19:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T02:22:43","slug":"is-the-space-force-about-to-acquire-spacex-starships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/is-the-space-force-about-to-acquire-spacex-starships","title":{"rendered":"Is the Space Force about to acquire SpaceX Starships?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NASA is already so impressed by the Starship that it has contracted SpaceX to build a lunar-landing version<\/a> of it to return astronauts to the moon as early as 2024. The selection has enraged Musk\u2019s rivals such as Blue Origin\u2019s Jeff Bezos<\/a> \"\"Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston Bezos<\/a>Seat on Bezos-backed space flight sells for million at auction<\/a> Researchers: Wealth accumulation at Ivy League presents \u2018fundamental threat to our democracy\u2019<\/a> Democrats reintroduce bill to create \u2018millionaires surtax\u2019<\/a> MORE<\/a> and has perturbed some members of Congress. Both have only themselves to blame \u2014 Blue Origin for offering an inferior design and Congress for underfunding the Human Landing System project.<\/p>\n

Military technology development has often been defined by the advent of new ways to transport people and cargo. The racing galleon<\/a> of the 16th century became the frigates and ships of the line that defined naval warfare in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The steam engine and iron and steel armor led to the dreadnoughts of the early 20th century. Modern warships incorporate nuclear power. Air travel has caused the same sort of evolution, from the motorized kites of World War I to modern jets that can deliver destruction and death from thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n

Now, space transportation technology is poised to cause a similar revolution in the military\u2019s ability to defend the United States and its allies and to inflict mayhem and death on any enemy that would propose to make war on America. The great irony is that the Starship will be used by a branch of the military that Musk once compared<\/a> to Starfleet, the fictional service depicted in the \u201cStar Trek\u201d television shows and movies. The thought would likely bring a smile to the face of the franchise\u2019s creator, Gene Roddenberry, in whatever afterlife one envisions him inhabiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA is already so impressed by the Starship that it has contracted SpaceX to build a lunar-landing version of it to return astronauts to the moon as early as 2024. The selection has enraged Musk\u2019s rivals such as Blue Origin\u2019s Jeff Bezos Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosSeat on Bezos-backed space flight sells for million at auction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9,873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123776","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=123776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}