{"id":25805,"date":"2016-05-17T17:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T00:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/why-darpa-is-pursuing-the-reusable-military-xs-1-spaceplane"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:49:10","slug":"why-darpa-is-pursuing-the-reusable-military-xs-1-spaceplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/why-darpa-is-pursuing-the-reusable-military-xs-1-spaceplane","title":{"rendered":"Why DARPA Is Pursuing the Reusable Military XS-1 Spaceplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-darpa-is-pursuing-the-reusable-military-xs-1-spaceplane.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming clean on the story around the XS-1 Spaceplane. Hmmm; US Government coming clean; really?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Here\u2019s a phrase that\u2019s not repeated everyday in the space community:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve heard Elon\u2019s comments \u2026 we want to go beyond that,\u201d Brad Tousley, the head of the tactical technology office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, <a href=\"http:\/\/spacenews.com\/why-darpa-is-pursuing-a-reusable-spaceplane\/\">said May 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elon, of course, is Elon Musk, the optimistic, and some say visionary, founder of SpaceX with plans of eventually colonizing Mars. After landing three first-stage rockets, Musk has said SpaceX would inspect the rockets with plans to later re-fly most of them. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/26530-xs1-experimental-military-space-plane-pictures.html\">DARPA\u2019s XS-1 Military Space Plane Concept in Pictures<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/54773-darpa-pursuing-reusable-xs1-spaceplane.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed%29\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/54773-darpa-pursuing-reusable-xs1...ne+Feed%29<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming clean on the story around the XS-1 Spaceplane. Hmmm; US Government coming clean; really? ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Here\u2019s a phrase that\u2019s not repeated everyday in the space community: \u201cYou\u2019ve heard Elon\u2019s comments \u2026 we want to go beyond that,\u201d Brad Tousley, the head of the tactical technology office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-military","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50474,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805\/revisions\/50474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}