{"id":168492,"date":"2023-07-28T14:26:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-starship-space-station-nasa-wants-a-modified-spacex-mars-rocket-to-orbit-earth"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:26:27","slug":"a-starship-space-station-nasa-wants-a-modified-spacex-mars-rocket-to-orbit-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-starship-space-station-nasa-wants-a-modified-spacex-mars-rocket-to-orbit-earth","title":{"rendered":"A Starship space station? NASA wants a modified SpaceX Mars rocket to orbit Earth"},"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\/zqE-ultsWt0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Starship upper stage\u2019s impressive 29.5-foot diameter means it could fit up to 100 passengers at a time.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starship rocket program is the culmination of founder Elon Musk\u2019s original plan of sending humans to Mars and making humans an interplanetary species.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Musk has always championed the launch system, originally called the Interplanetary Transport System, as a versatile spacecraft that could be used as a rapid point-to-point transportation system for Earth \u2014 a modified version of Starship has also been contracted by NASA for the Artemis III Moon landings, expected to take place in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Starship upper stage\u2019s impressive 29.5-foot diameter means it could fit up to 100 passengers at a time. SpaceX\u2019s Starship rocket program is the culmination of founder Elon Musk\u2019s original plan of sending humans to Mars and making humans an interplanetary species. And yet, Musk has always championed the launch system, originally called the Interplanetary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168492","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\/168492","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=168492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}