{"id":83104,"date":"2018-09-27T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/spacexs-bfr-and-raptor-deemed-science-fiction"},"modified":"2018-09-27T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:23:11","slug":"spacexs-bfr-and-raptor-deemed-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/spacexs-bfr-and-raptor-deemed-science-fiction","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s BFR and Raptor deemed \u201cscience-fiction\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-bfr-and-raptor-deemed-science-fiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a September 7th interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courrierinternational.com\/article\/francis-rocard-astrophysicien-mars-est-la-nouvelle-frontiere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French newspaper <em>Courrier International<\/em><\/a>, Dr. Francis Rocard \u2013 director of French space agency CNES\u2019 solar system exploration program \u2013 had little good to say about SpaceX and CEO Elon Musk\u2019s long-term ambitions in space, going so far as to question the CEO\u2019s driving ethics and label the company\u2019s next-generation rocket and propulsion system \u201cscience-fiction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-bfr-raptor-science-fiction-french-space-agency\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-bfr-raptor-science-fiction-french-space-agency\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in a September 7th interview with French newspaper Courrier International, Dr. Francis Rocard \u2013 director of French space agency CNES\u2019 solar system exploration program \u2013 had little good to say about SpaceX and CEO Elon Musk\u2019s long-term ambitions in space, going so far as to question the CEO\u2019s driving ethics and label the company\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,30,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-ethics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83104","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=83104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}