{"id":96803,"date":"2019-09-29T12:44:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T19:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/elon-musk-says-spacex-starship-rocket-could-reach-orbit-within-six-months"},"modified":"2019-09-29T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T22:42:56","slug":"elon-musk-says-spacex-starship-rocket-could-reach-orbit-within-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/elon-musk-says-spacex-starship-rocket-could-reach-orbit-within-six-months","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says SpaceX Starship rocket could reach orbit within six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-spacex-starship-rocket-could-reach-orbit-within-six-months2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During Saturday evening\u2019s hour-long, particularly windy press conference, Musk announced that the next test would take place in \u201cabout one to two months\u201d before detailing how Starship would control its landing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is quite a new approach to controlling a rocket,\u201d Musk said. \u201cMuch more akin to a skydiver than a plane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk laughed as he showed the crowd in Boca Chica how the craft would control the fall, with his hands acting as the ship. Getting into the specifics a little more, Musk explained the importance of a steel heat shield that would only cost a fraction of a carbon fiber heat shield. \u201cI\u2019m in love with steel,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Saturday evening\u2019s hour-long, particularly windy press conference, Musk announced that the next test would take place in \u201cabout one to two months\u201d before detailing how Starship would control its landing. \u201cThis is quite a new approach to controlling a rocket,\u201d Musk said. \u201cMuch more akin to a skydiver than a plane.\u201d Musk laughed as [\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-96803","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\/96803","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=96803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96807,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96803\/revisions\/96807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}