{"id":195305,"date":"2024-08-27T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/spacex-starship-flotillas-could-outrace-nasa-to-create-moon-base-alpha"},"modified":"2024-08-27T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:28:26","slug":"spacex-starship-flotillas-could-outrace-nasa-to-create-moon-base-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/spacex-starship-flotillas-could-outrace-nasa-to-create-moon-base-alpha","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Starship Flotillas Could Outrace NASA To Create Moon Base Alpha"},"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\/S6g73tO9E04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX, with its rapidly expanding squadron of Starship rockets and super-capsules, looks poised to dominate the creation of humanity\u2019s first base camp on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>As it ramps up producing Starship upper stages that can double as Moon-orbiting space stations or as spectacular lunar resorts, SpaceX is positioned to speed past NASA\u2019s plans for Spartan astronaut habitats on the orb\u2019s South Pole.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s \u201clunar surface habitat concepts are currently in early conceptual stages or pre-formulation,\u201d Corinne Beckinger, a NASA representative based at the Marshall Space Flight Center, told me in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX, with its rapidly expanding squadron of Starship rockets and super-capsules, looks poised to dominate the creation of humanity\u2019s first base camp on the Moon. As it ramps up producing Starship upper stages that can double as Moon-orbiting space stations or as spectacular lunar resorts, SpaceX is positioned to speed past NASA\u2019s plans for Spartan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195305","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=195305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}