{"id":126965,"date":"2021-08-30T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-catch-starship-booster-with-giant-robot-chopsticks"},"modified":"2021-08-30T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:23:36","slug":"elon-musk-says-spacex-will-catch-starship-booster-with-giant-robot-chopsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-catch-starship-booster-with-giant-robot-chopsticks","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Catch Starship Booster With Giant \u201cRobot Chopsticks\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-catch-starship-booster-with-giant-robot-chopsticks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company will attempt something very different to recover its massive Super Heavy booster after it launches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceX will try to catch largest ever flying object with robot chopsticks,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1432270085415124995\" class=\"\">Musk tweeted<\/a> early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He was referring, of course, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/spacex-catch-starship-booster-launch-tower\" class=\"\">giant robotic tower SpaceX is building<\/a> to catch the primary rocket stage after it gives the company\u2019s Starship spacecraft a boost into orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company will attempt something very different to recover its massive Super Heavy booster after it launches. \u201cSpaceX will try to catch largest ever flying object with robot chopsticks,\u201d Musk tweeted early Monday morning. He was referring, of course, to the giant robotic tower SpaceX is building to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126965","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}