{"id":184813,"date":"2024-03-09T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T05:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/elon-musk-says-starship-will-spin-for-artificial-gravity"},"modified":"2024-03-09T23:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T05:23:57","slug":"elon-musk-says-starship-will-spin-for-artificial-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/elon-musk-says-starship-will-spin-for-artificial-gravity","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says Starship Will Spin for Artificial Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-starship-will-spin-for-artificial-gravity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is gearing up for its third attempt to get its massive Starship spacecraft into orbit. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2024\/03\/07\/spacex-tentatively-targets-march-14-for-third-starship-flight\/\" class=\"\">recent update<\/a>, the company hinted at a March 14 launch \u201cpending regulatory approval.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already thinking many steps ahead, envisioning what\u2019ll be like to travel on board the spacecraft all the way to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarship will have a small spin on the way to Mars,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1765522615056453857?s=20\" class=\"\">replied<\/a> after Id Software founder John Carmack <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ID_AA_Carmack\/status\/1765475920599457863?s=20\" class=\"\">suggested<\/a> SpaceX should try to spin its Dragon astronaut shuttle to test out spin gravity. \u201cEven a tiny gravity vector is better than none.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is gearing up for its third attempt to get its massive Starship spacecraft into orbit. In a recent update, the company hinted at a March 14 launch \u201cpending regulatory approval.\u201d Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already thinking many steps ahead, envisioning what\u2019ll be like to travel on board the spacecraft all the way [\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-184813","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\/184813","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=184813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}