{"id":19324,"date":"2019-09-30T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19324"},"modified":"2019-09-30T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T22:31:13","slug":"elon-musk-unveils-mars-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19324","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk unveils Mars rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s rocket designed to go to Mars is expected to launch its first mission in months, the billionaire tech entrepreneur said last weekend as SpaceX unveiled the Starship rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Musk showed Starship to reporters at the SpaceX development site in Boca Chica, Texas, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rkwwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbtrllvw_qfsmggswstmgfdhhmdvv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rkwwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbtrllvw_qfsmggswstmgfdhhmdvv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1569968854178000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGhPnO63x7TF37giKvKrhnZAzz04Q\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The news outlet reports that animations predicted the rocket\u2019s first orbital flight could happen in months and missions to space with humans aboard could follow the next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe critical breakthrough that\u2019s needed for us to become a space-faring civilization is to make space travel like air travel,\u201d Musk, who is also the chief executive of Tesla, reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p>The 387-foot-tall Starship is designed to carry as many as 100 people for long-duration interplanetary flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s rocket designed to go&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19325,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324\/revisions\/19325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}