{"id":150227,"date":"2022-11-15T09:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/spacex-will-take-the-next-nasa-astronauts-to-the-moon"},"modified":"2022-11-15T09:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:19:58","slug":"spacex-will-take-the-next-nasa-astronauts-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/spacex-will-take-the-next-nasa-astronauts-to-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Will Take the Next NASA Astronauts to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-will-take-the-next-nasa-astronauts-to-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX and NASA are gearing up towards the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>NASA deputy associate administrator Mark Kirasich spoke highly of SpaceX\u2019s progress on Starship in a subcommittee meeting of NASA\u2019s Advisory Council on Monday, October 31, as per an <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/11\/spacex-is-now-building-a-raptor-engine-a-day-nasa-says\/\">Ars Technica report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, NASA awarded SpaceX a <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/spacex-will-take-the-next-nasa-astronauts-to-the-moon\">$2.9 billion contract<\/a> to build a modified version of Starship as a lunar lander for its upcoming Artemis III mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX and NASA are gearing up towards the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. NASA deputy associate administrator Mark Kirasich spoke highly of SpaceX\u2019s progress on Starship in a subcommittee meeting of NASA\u2019s Advisory Council on Monday, October 31, as per an Ars Technica report. In 2021, NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150227","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=150227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}