{"id":97370,"date":"2019-10-12T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T01:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/nasa-shows-interest-in-spacexs-starship-orbital-refueling-ambitions"},"modified":"2019-10-12T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T01:03:21","slug":"nasa-shows-interest-in-spacexs-starship-orbital-refueling-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/nasa-shows-interest-in-spacexs-starship-orbital-refueling-ambitions","title":{"rendered":"NASA shows interest in SpaceX\u2019s Starship orbital refueling ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-shows-interest-in-spacexs-starship-orbital-refueling-ambitions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If SpaceX wants its massive next-generation spacecraft to reach the moon and planets beyond, CEO Elon Musk says it\u2019ll need to be refueled in orbit around Earth \u2013 and NASA wants to know more.<\/p>\n<p>Now in the prototype and early test flight phase, Starship is a stainless steel crewed craft that will launch atop a Super Heavy booster. But because of its size and potentially heavy payloads \u2013 like dozens or hundreds of astronauts \u2013 in the future, it will need to be refueled in orbit around Earth before it begins longer voyages.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX, Musk said, is developing the technologies necessary to dock two Starships together in orbit \u2013 one without much in the way of crew or payloads \u2013 and transfer fuel to the one venturing beyond low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If SpaceX wants its massive next-generation spacecraft to reach the moon and planets beyond, CEO Elon Musk says it\u2019ll need to be refueled in orbit around Earth \u2013 and NASA wants to know more. Now in the prototype and early test flight phase, Starship is a stainless steel crewed craft that will launch atop a [\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-97370","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\/97370","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=97370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}