{"id":190730,"date":"2024-06-06T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/spacexs-starship-makes-1st-successful-water-landing-in-4th-test-flight"},"modified":"2024-06-06T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:25:24","slug":"spacexs-starship-makes-1st-successful-water-landing-in-4th-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/spacexs-starship-makes-1st-successful-water-landing-in-4th-test-flight","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starship makes 1st successful water landing in 4th test flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-starship-makes-1st-successful-water-landing-in-4th-test-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"SpaceX's\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/09\/05\/spacex-dominance-space-industry\" data-vars-content-id=\"192325c9-0e12-464c-a75d-bb4a678b1ead\" data-vars-headline=\"SpaceX's Starship makes 1st successful water landing in 4th test flight\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/09\/05\/spacex-dominance-space-industry\" target=\"_self\">SpaceX\u2019s<\/a> Starship and its massive reusable booster both successfully made their first controlled water landing during a fourth flight test on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>It\u2019s a significant achievement for the vehicle, which is key to <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"NASA's Artemis program\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/11\/17\/nasa-artemis-moon-mission-sls-rocket\" data-vars-content-id=\"192325c9-0e12-464c-a75d-bb4a678b1ead\" data-vars-headline=\"SpaceX's Starship makes 1st successful water landing in 4th test flight\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/11\/17\/nasa-artemis-moon-mission-sls-rocket\" target=\"_self\">NASA\u2019s Artemis program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starship and its massive reusable booster both successfully made their first controlled water landing during a fourth flight test on Thursday. Why it matters: It\u2019s a significant achievement for the vehicle, which is key to NASA\u2019s Artemis program.<\/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-190730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190730","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=190730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}