{"id":162345,"date":"2023-04-17T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/elon-musks-spacex-set-for-debut-flight-of-starship-rocket-system-to-space"},"modified":"2023-04-17T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:24:16","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-set-for-debut-flight-of-starship-rocket-system-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/elon-musks-spacex-set-for-debut-flight-of-starship-rocket-system-to-space","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX set for debut flight of Starship rocket system to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-spacex-set-for-debut-flight-of-starship-rocket-system-to-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BOCA CHICA, Texas, April 17 (Reuters) \u2014 Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX made final preparations early on Monday to launch its powerful new Starship rocket system to space for the first time, on a brief but highly anticipated uncrewed test flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 394 feet (120 m) high, was due for blastoff from the SpaceX facility at Boca Chica, Texas, during a two-hour launch window that opens at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The test mission, whether or not its objectives are entirely met, represents a key milestone in SpaceX\u2019s ambition of sending humans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars \u2014 also the central goal of a renewed NASA spaceflight program intended to integrate the Starship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOCA CHICA, Texas, April 17 (Reuters) \u2014 Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX made final preparations early on Monday to launch its powerful new Starship rocket system to space for the first time, on a brief but highly anticipated uncrewed test flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas. The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162345","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}