{"id":137742,"date":"2022-04-05T13:23:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/head-of-u-s-space-force-launch-operations-watching-starship-closely"},"modified":"2022-04-05T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:23:55","slug":"head-of-u-s-space-force-launch-operations-watching-starship-closely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/head-of-u-s-space-force-launch-operations-watching-starship-closely","title":{"rendered":"Head of U.S. Space Force launch operations \u2018watching Starship closely\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/head-of-u-s-space-force-launch-operations-watching-starship-closely2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy: Seeing Starbase \u2018gives you a lot of ideas of what the future could be\u2019<\/p>\n<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2013 Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy was in Boca Chica, Texas, last month visiting Starbase. That is SpaceX\u2019s launch and rocket manufacturing and testing facility where the company hopes to operate Starship, the largest rocket ever built.<\/p>\n<p>Purdy is the commander of Florida\u2019s Eastern Range and also serves as the Space Force\u2019s program executive officer for assured access to space, a new post within the Space Systems Command overseeing launch services procurement for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy: Seeing Starbase \u2018gives you a lot of ideas of what the future could be\u2019 COLORADO SPRINGS \u2013 Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy was in Boca Chica, Texas, last month visiting Starbase. That is SpaceX\u2019s launch and rocket manufacturing and testing facility where the company hopes to operate Starship, the largest rocket ever [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137742","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=137742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}