{"id":186912,"date":"2024-04-06T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/spacex-tests-epic-escape-slide-in-case-of-exploding-rocket"},"modified":"2024-04-06T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T20:31:27","slug":"spacex-tests-epic-escape-slide-in-case-of-exploding-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/spacex-tests-epic-escape-slide-in-case-of-exploding-rocket","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Tests Epic Escape Slide in Case of Exploding Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-tests-epic-escape-slide-in-case-of-exploding-rocket2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has tested the emergency chutes that could save astronauts\u2019 lives during a launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1770214627051471132\" class=\"\">new video<\/a> shared by the company on X-formerly-Twitter shows a person dressed in a black and white SpaceX spacesuit zipping down from the tower\u2019s crew pad inside a tube of red and white fabric, an equally exhilarating and terrifying ordeal \u2014 especially considering the threat of an exploding rocket right behind you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though it\u2019s meant to be used for emergencies, it looks like a lot of fun!\u201d SpaceX CEO Elon Musk commented in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1770231834254901382\" class=\"\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has tested the emergency chutes that could save astronauts\u2019 lives during a launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A new video shared by the company on X-formerly-Twitter shows a person dressed in a black and white SpaceX spacesuit zipping down from the tower\u2019s crew pad inside a tube of red and white [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186912","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\/186912","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}