{"id":75984,"date":"2018-02-14T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/worlds-largest-plane-could-give-elon-musk-the-space-race-hes-craving"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:22:57","slug":"worlds-largest-plane-could-give-elon-musk-the-space-race-hes-craving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/worlds-largest-plane-could-give-elon-musk-the-space-race-hes-craving","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Plane Could Give Elon Musk The Space Race He\u2019s Craving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-largest-plane-could-give-elon-musk-the-space-race-hes-craving.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image: Stratolaunch Billionaires are taking to space the way wistful young men take to the sea in 19th Century novels. Last week, Elon Musk launched his Tesla Roadster at the astroid belt using the world\u2019s most powerful rocket currently in operation. Not to be outdone, Microsoft\u2019s co-founder Paul Allen also has a big plan (and a big plane) for going to space. In December of last year, the Stratolaunch performed its first taxi at the Mojave Air &amp; Space Port in Mojave, CA. While that doesn\u2019t seem terribly exciting, it\u2019s the first step to getting the Stratolaunch, the world\u2019s largest plane eve\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEPvZdi9gkRCB2ffHP_JpihMqFQgEKg0IACoGCAowtIECMNBMMPKnHg\">https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEPvZdi9gkRCB2ffHP_...MNBMMPKnHg<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Stratolaunch Billionaires are taking to space the way wistful young men take to the sea in 19th Century novels. Last week, Elon Musk launched his Tesla Roadster at the astroid belt using the world\u2019s most powerful rocket currently in operation. Not to be outdone, Microsoft\u2019s co-founder Paul Allen also has a big plan (and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,8,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75984","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=75984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}