{"id":127949,"date":"2021-09-22T03:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T10:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/spacex-says-it-may-build-starships-exclusively-for-space-tourism"},"modified":"2021-09-22T03:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T10:22:58","slug":"spacex-says-it-may-build-starships-exclusively-for-space-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/spacex-says-it-may-build-starships-exclusively-for-space-tourism","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Says It May Build Starships Exclusively for Space Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-says-it-may-build-starships-exclusively-for-space-tourism2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX successfully sent four space tourists on a three day joyride around the Earth inside its Crew Dragon spacecraft last week \u2014 and the mission has sent demand soaring, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of people who are approaching us through our sales and marketing portals has actually increased significantly,\u201d the company\u2019s senior director of human spaceflight programs Benji Reed revealed during Saturday\u2019s press conference, as <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2021\/09\/after-inspiration4-spacex-sees-high-demand-for-free-flyer-missions\/\" class=\"\">quoted by <em>Ars Technica<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s tons of interest rolling in now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even more excitingly, Reed says that the company\u2019s much, much bigger spacecraft Starship may also be destined to launch tourists, a massive upgrade that could allow significantly more passengers to embark on an extremely expensive trip to space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX successfully sent four space tourists on a three day joyride around the Earth inside its Crew Dragon spacecraft last week \u2014 and the mission has sent demand soaring, according to the company. \u201cThe amount of people who are approaching us through our sales and marketing portals has actually increased significantly,\u201d the company\u2019s senior director [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127949","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=127949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}