{"id":148100,"date":"2022-10-13T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-worlds-first-space-tourist-will-now-also-ride-starship-around-the-moon-and-back"},"modified":"2022-10-13T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:26:24","slug":"the-worlds-first-space-tourist-will-now-also-ride-starship-around-the-moon-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-worlds-first-space-tourist-will-now-also-ride-starship-around-the-moon-and-back","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s first space tourist will now also ride Starship around the Moon and back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-first-space-tourist-will-now-also-ride-starship-around-the-moon-and-back2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starship could launch to orbit for the first time next month.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneur Dennis Tito was the first-ever space tourist when he paid to fly aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) back in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Those missions will be a precursor to Starship\u2019s eventual crewed missions to Mars, which will be partly funded by SpaceX\u2019s space tourism launches and its Starlink internet service.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>1, 2<\/p>\n<p>Now, SpaceX has announced Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko is \u201cthe first two crewmembers on Starship\u2019s second commercial spaceflight around the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starship could launch to orbit for the first time next month. Entrepreneur Dennis Tito was the first-ever space tourist when he paid to fly aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) back in 2001. Those missions will be a precursor to Starship\u2019s eventual crewed missions to Mars, which will be partly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148100","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}