{"id":77846,"date":"2018-04-16T08:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/elon-musks-latest-spacex-idea-involves-a-party-balloon-and-bounce-house"},"modified":"2018-04-16T08:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:03:23","slug":"elon-musks-latest-spacex-idea-involves-a-party-balloon-and-bounce-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/elon-musks-latest-spacex-idea-involves-a-party-balloon-and-bounce-house","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s latest SpaceX idea involves a party balloon and bounce house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-latest-spacex-idea-involves-a-party-balloon-and-bounce-house2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> took to Twitter Sunday night to announce a new recovery method for an upper stage <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/space-exploration-technologies\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"space-exploration-technologies\">SpaceX<\/a> rocket. A balloon \u2014 a \u201cgiant party balloon\u201d to quote him directly \u2014 will ferry part of a rocket to a bounce house. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone else proposed this idea they would be ignored, but Elon Musk lately has a way of turning crazy ideas into reality.<\/p>\n<p>It was just in 2012 that <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/space-exploration-technologies\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"space-exploration-technologies\">SpaceX<\/a> launched and landed its first rocket and now the company is doing it with rockets significantly larger. And then early this year SpaceX made a surprise announcement that it would attempt to use a high-speed boat and large net to catch part of rocket. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-recovers-fairing-half-mr-steven-clawboat-iridium-launch\/\">it worked<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/22\/spacex-misses-catching-falcon-9-rocket-fairing-with-a-giant-net-on-a-big-ship\/\">a failed first attempt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/04\/16\/elon-musks-latest-spacex-idea-involves-a-party-balloon-and-bounce-house\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/04\/16\/elon-musks-latest-spacex-i...nce-house\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk took to Twitter Sunday night to announce a new recovery method for an upper stage SpaceX rocket. A balloon \u2014 a \u201cgiant party balloon\u201d to quote him directly \u2014 will ferry part of a rocket to a bounce house. Seriously. If anyone else proposed this idea they would be ignored, but Elon Musk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77846","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=77846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}