{"id":96784,"date":"2019-09-28T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T03:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/elon-musk-unveils-spacexs-new-starship-plans-for-private-trips-to-the-moon-mars-and-beyond"},"modified":"2019-09-30T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:04:15","slug":"elon-musk-unveils-spacexs-new-starship-plans-for-private-trips-to-the-moon-mars-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/elon-musk-unveils-spacexs-new-starship-plans-for-private-trips-to-the-moon-mars-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Unveils SpaceX\u2019s New Starship Plans for Private Trips to the Moon, Mars and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-unveils-spacexs-new-starship-plans-for-private-trips-to-the-moon-mars-and-beyond3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This latest design has held to the present day; SpaceX is still shooting for a 387-foot-tall Starship-Super Heavy stack, with six Raptors on the spacecraft. The number of engines on Super Heavy could vary from flight to flight; Musk said the rocket has space for up to 37 Raptors, and each mission will probably require at least 24.<\/p>\n<p>With the design nailed down, SpaceX plans to move fast. The company wants to reach Earth orbit with a Starship prototype in about six months. And people could start flying aboard the vehicle in the next year or so if the test program continues to go well, Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>While Musk and SpaceX have been lauded by their ambitious push for a Starship capable of deep-space travel, the road has not always been smooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This latest design has held to the present day; SpaceX is still shooting for a 387-foot-tall Starship-Super Heavy stack, with six Raptors on the spacecraft. The number of engines on Super Heavy could vary from flight to flight; Musk said the rocket has space for up to 37 Raptors, and each mission will probably require [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96784","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=96784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96833,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96784\/revisions\/96833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}