{"id":167543,"date":"2023-07-14T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/investing-in-space-why-blue-origins-engine-explosion-matters"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:27:37","slug":"investing-in-space-why-blue-origins-engine-explosion-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/investing-in-space-why-blue-origins-engine-explosion-matters","title":{"rendered":"Investing in Space: Why Blue Origin\u2019s engine explosion matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/investing-in-space-why-blue-origins-engine-explosion-matters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason the saying \u201cthat\u2019s why we test\u201d exists. I\u2019ve seen it a lot in my mentions the past few days. Unfortunately, and crucially, it ignores that tests happen for different reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get into that, especially in light of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/11\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-be-4-rocket-engine-explodes-during-testing.html\">the recently unveiled explosion of a BE-4 rocket engine<\/a> during Blue Origin\u2019s testing in Texas. The engine was bound for the second launch of its customer United Launch Alliance\u2019s Vulcan rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a reason the saying \u201cthat\u2019s why we test\u201d exists. I\u2019ve seen it a lot in my mentions the past few days. Unfortunately, and crucially, it ignores that tests happen for different reasons. Let\u2019s get into that, especially in light of the recently unveiled explosion of a BE-4 rocket engine during Blue Origin\u2019s testing in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167543","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}