{"id":96823,"date":"2019-09-30T01:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T08:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/basically-holy-grail-of-space-elon-musk-unveils-new-mars-rocket-prototype-expects-missions-in-months"},"modified":"2019-10-01T07:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:38:44","slug":"basically-holy-grail-of-space-elon-musk-unveils-new-mars-rocket-prototype-expects-missions-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/basically-holy-grail-of-space-elon-musk-unveils-new-mars-rocket-prototype-expects-missions-in-months","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Basically Holy Grail of Space\u2019: Elon Musk Unveils New Mars Rocket Prototype, Expects Missions in Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/basically-holy-grail-of-space-elon-musk-unveils-new-mars-rocket-prototype-expects-missions-in-months2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled the latest iteration of his space company\u2019s newly assembled Starship, outlining a speedy development timeline for the centerpiece vehicle of SpaceX\u2019s quest to launch humans to the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Musk showed a crowd of space enthusiasts and reporters at SpaceX\u2019s rocket development site late on Saturday in the remote village of Boca Chica, Texas, animations of Starship landing on the moon and Mars and predicted that the rocket\u2019s first orbital flight could come in the next six months, followed by missions to space with humans aboard the next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is basically the holy grail of space,\u201d Musk said, standing between a towering, newly assembled Starship rocket and Falcon 1 \u2014 the company\u2019s first vehicle whose debut orbital mission was celebrated by SpaceX 11 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled the latest iteration of his space company\u2019s newly assembled Starship, outlining a speedy development timeline for the centerpiece vehicle of SpaceX\u2019s quest to launch humans to the moon and Mars. Musk showed a crowd of space enthusiasts and reporters at SpaceX\u2019s rocket development site late on Saturday in the [\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-96823","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\/96823","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=96823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96860,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96823\/revisions\/96860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}