{"id":94099,"date":"2019-07-24T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/elon-musk-revolutionising-space-transportation-with-stainless-steel"},"modified":"2019-07-24T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:23:09","slug":"elon-musk-revolutionising-space-transportation-with-stainless-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/elon-musk-revolutionising-space-transportation-with-stainless-steel","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: Revolutionising Space Transportation with Stainless Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-revolutionising-space-transportation-with-stainless-steel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has come a long way. After being shocked by the <strong>absence of NASA\u2019s concrete plans for a manned mission to Mars<\/strong> in the early 2000s, Elon Musk, the well-known entrepreneur and engineer, founded SpaceX in order to <strong>establish affordable access to space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After spending a couple of years on designing, building and testing the first privately developed orbital rockets, the fourth launch of the Falcon 1 rocket into orbit was successful, <strong>marking the dawn of private space transportation<\/strong>. With its proven capabilities, SpaceX was awarded a substantial contract from NASA for supply missions to the International Space Station, providing the funding for a rapid development of new launch vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has come a long way. After being shocked by the absence of NASA\u2019s concrete plans for a manned mission to Mars in the early 2000s, Elon Musk, the well-known entrepreneur and engineer, founded SpaceX in order to establish affordable access to space. After spending a couple of years on designing, building and testing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94099","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}