{"id":161905,"date":"2023-04-11T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/incoming-hoverboat-morning-transport-to-work-at-spacex"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:55:20","slug":"incoming-hoverboat-morning-transport-to-work-at-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/incoming-hoverboat-morning-transport-to-work-at-spacex","title":{"rendered":"Incoming hoverboat, morning transport to work at SpaceX"},"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\/dmAjkm3Gzwg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is pretty cool, I just learned from our Felix Schlang that SpaceX operates a hovercraft, kinda of like the hovercraft that Luke used in the original Star Wars movie.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is using this to get between two locations that are about an hour apart by road, but only 15 minutes apart via sea. A hovercraft hovers over land or water and is ideal for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a short video of the hovercraft in action:<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Felix\u2019s video that mentions the hovercraft: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wiYCL-sgPDA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wiYCL-sgPDA<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The morning ride from South Padre Island to SpaceX build site in south Texas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/incoming-hoverboat-morning-transport-to-work-at-spacex\">Continue reading \u201cIncoming hoverboat, morning transport to work at SpaceX\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty cool, I just learned from our Felix Schlang that SpaceX operates a hovercraft, kinda of like the hovercraft that Luke used in the original Star Wars movie. SpaceX is using this to get between two locations that are about an hour apart by road, but only 15 minutes apart via sea. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161905","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161911,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161905\/revisions\/161911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}