{"id":203889,"date":"2025-01-16T15:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/rocket-launch-challenges-elon-musks-space-dominance"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T21:07:13","slug":"rocket-launch-challenges-elon-musks-space-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/rocket-launch-challenges-elon-musks-space-dominance","title":{"rendered":"Rocket launch challenges Elon Musk\u2019s space dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-launch-challenges-elon-musks-space-dominance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos is back in the (astro) picture= hooray! [ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24eg7z7zgo\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24eg7z7zgo<\/a>](<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24eg7z7zgo\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24eg7z7zgo<\/a>) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b class=\"\">Amazon founder Jeff Bezos\u2019s space company has blasted its first rocket into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 02:02 local time (07:02 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>It firmly pits the world\u2019s two richest men against each other in a commercial space race, vying to fly bigger and more powerful rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos is back in the (astro) picture= hooray! [ https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24eg7z7zgo](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24eg7z7zgo) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos\u2019s space company has blasted its first rocket into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX. The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 02:02 local time (07:02 GMT). It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203889","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\/203889","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\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}