{"id":13316,"date":"2024-10-15T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=13316"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T18:33:57","slug":"single-stage-to-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=13316","title":{"rendered":"Single Stage to Infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Starship-Booster-Caught.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Starship-Booster-Caught-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Starship-Booster-Caught-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Starship-Booster-Caught-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Starship-Booster-Caught-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Starship-Booster-Caught.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A SpaceX booster just lifted off from its cradle to launch a starship into orbit before flying back to land in the cradle it departed 7 minutes previously.  \u201cSingle Stage to Infinity\u201d is the dream according to Arlan Andrews, and this isn\u2019t there yet, but it most certainly did \u201ctake off and land vertically, the way God and Robert Heinlein intended.\u201d  Also Arlan Andrews.  This is so far up the technological ladder compared to where we were even ten years ago that it isn\u2019t even funny.  This was science fiction twenty years ago.  This is the future now.  This is the Moon.  This is Mars.  This is us becoming an interplanetary civilization in my lifetime.  This is our species escaping the single billiard ball of doom.  This is huge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX booster just lifted off from its cradle to launch a starship into orbit before flying back to land in the cradle it departed 7 minutes previously. \u201cSingle Stage to Infinity\u201d is the dream according to Arlan Andrews, and[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=13316\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13318,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316\/revisions\/13318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}