{"id":172552,"date":"2023-09-22T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/elon-says-future-starships-will-be-20-longer"},"modified":"2023-09-22T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:23:44","slug":"elon-says-future-starships-will-be-20-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/elon-says-future-starships-will-be-20-longer","title":{"rendered":"Elon Says Future Starships Will be 20% Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-says-future-starships-will-be-20-longer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is already the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. Elon tweeted that future versions will be 10% to 20% longer. If the 20% longer development happens then the stacked rocket will be 144 meters long. Adding 24 meters would be over 60% of the length of the Space Shuttle orbiter which was 37 meters long.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Likely to be 10% to 20% longer in later versions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\">@elonmusk<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1700393781768417540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is already the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. Elon tweeted that future versions will be 10% to 20% longer. If the 20% longer development happens then the stacked rocket will be 144 meters long. Adding 24 meters would be over 60% of the length of the Space Shuttle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172552","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\/172552","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=172552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}