{"id":140630,"date":"2022-06-15T15:36:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/nasa-afraid-spacexs-rocket-will-explode-and-blow-up-other-stuff-near-it"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:36:02","slug":"nasa-afraid-spacexs-rocket-will-explode-and-blow-up-other-stuff-near-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/nasa-afraid-spacexs-rocket-will-explode-and-blow-up-other-stuff-near-it","title":{"rendered":"NASA Afraid SpaceX\u2019s Rocket Will Explode and Blow Up Other Stuff Near It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-afraid-spacexs-rocket-will-explode-and-blow-up-other-stuff-near-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA <em>really<\/em> doesn\u2019t want SpaceX\u2019s Starship to blow up on the launch pad at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/spacex-faces-nasa-hurdle-starship-backup-launch-pad-2022-06-13\/\" class=\"\"><em>Reuters<\/em> reports<\/a> \u2014 a potential disaster so severe it could cut off the United States from accessing the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The facilities in question, Launch Complex 39A, served as NASA\u2019s \u201cMoonport\u201d to deliver astronauts to the lunar surface during the Apollo program. Now, it\u2019s the only launch pad capable of sending astronauts to the ISS \u2014 on board SpaceX\u2019s much smaller Crew Dragon spacecraft \u2014 from US soil.<\/p>\n<p>Now, SpaceX wants to pick up where NASA left off in the 1970s and return astronauts to the Moon in the upcoming years with its nearly 400-feet-tall Starship and Super Heavy booster stack. But the risk catastrophe, it terms out, is palpable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA really doesn\u2019t want SpaceX\u2019s Starship to blow up on the launch pad at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Reuters reports \u2014 a potential disaster so severe it could cut off the United States from accessing the International Space Station. The facilities in question, Launch Complex 39A, served as NASA\u2019s \u201cMoonport\u201d 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":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140630","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=140630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}