{"id":134717,"date":"2022-01-26T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/single-stage-to-orbit-how-the-holy-grail-of-spaceflight-could-soon-become-reality"},"modified":"2022-01-26T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:22:17","slug":"single-stage-to-orbit-how-the-holy-grail-of-spaceflight-could-soon-become-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/single-stage-to-orbit-how-the-holy-grail-of-spaceflight-could-soon-become-reality","title":{"rendered":"Single-stage-to-orbit: How the holy grail of spaceflight could soon become reality"},"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\/Sfc2Jg1gkKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the holy grail of spaceflight, and it could come sooner than many expect.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This month, Washington-based Radian Aerospace announced that it\u2019s building a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/51754-virgin-galactic-spaceflight-achieved\">spaceplane<\/a> that takes off and lands horizontally. The reveal sparked excitement about what could be considered the holy grail of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/spaceflight-record-in-2021\">decades-old industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strath.ac.uk\/staff\/maddockchristiedr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Christie Maddock<\/a>, a lecturer in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Strathclyde, says that the \u201calluring concept\u201d has been around for nearly a century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe announcement by Radian Aerospace is exciting, mainly in that it means work in this field, towards this goal, is ongoing,\u201d Maddock tells <em>Inverse<\/em>. \u201cWhat exactly that work is, and how successful they may be, is impossible to tell without knowing the technical details.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the holy grail of spaceflight, and it could come sooner than many expect. This month, Washington-based Radian Aerospace announced that it\u2019s building a spaceplane that takes off and lands horizontally. The reveal sparked excitement about what could be considered the holy grail of the decades-old industry. Christie Maddock, a lecturer in mechanical and aerospace [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134717","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}