{"id":82947,"date":"2018-09-24T20:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T03:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/spacex-ramps-south-texas-activity-to-prepare-for-2019-bfr-spaceship-testing"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:03:51","slug":"spacex-ramps-south-texas-activity-to-prepare-for-2019-bfr-spaceship-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/spacex-ramps-south-texas-activity-to-prepare-for-2019-bfr-spaceship-testing","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX ramps South Texas activity to prepare for 2019 BFR spaceship testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-ramps-south-texas-activity-to-prepare-for-2019-bfr-spaceship-testing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the same time as the hardware for SpaceX\u2019s first BFR spaceship is entering the early stages of manufacturing, the company\u2019s South Texas test facility is slowly taking shape after more than 18 months of what can be fairly described as hibernation.<\/p>\n<p>The likeliest location for a near-future spaceship test stand or pad has also experienced a comparatively vast influx of construction workers and general activity that began earlier this month September, nearly two and half years after SpaceX began preparing the unstable coastal wetland with the addition of several hundred tons of soil.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-south-texas-activity-bfr-spaceship-testing-prep\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-south-texas-activity-bfr-sp...ting-prep\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the same time as the hardware for SpaceX\u2019s first BFR spaceship is entering the early stages of manufacturing, the company\u2019s South Texas test facility is slowly taking shape after more than 18 months of what can be fairly described as hibernation. The likeliest location for a near-future spaceship test stand or pad has also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82947","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=82947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82981,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82947\/revisions\/82981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}