{"id":3926043,"date":"2026-05-20T08:06:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-spacex-rocket-will-soon-hit-the-moon-raising-concerns-about-handing-over-space-launches-to-private-companies\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:06:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:06:49","slug":"a-spacex-rocket-will-soon-hit-the-moon-raising-concerns-about-handing-over-space-launches-to-private-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-spacex-rocket-will-soon-hit-the-moon-raising-concerns-about-handing-over-space-launches-to-private-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"A SpaceX rocket will soon hit the moon, raising concerns about handing over space launches to private companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>SpaceX seems to have mistaken shooting for the moon with shooting at the moon. Forecast to occur on Aug. 5, a five-story-long piece of a rocket from one of the private space exploration company&#8217;s recent lunar missions is expected to hit the moon at around 5,400 miles per hour, around 24 times the speed of a Formula 1 racecar. As it currently stands, projections put the rocket&#8217;s crash course with the moon at 2:44 a.m. Eastern Time.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-spacex-rocket-moon-space-private.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX seems to have mistaken shooting for the moon with shooting at the moon. Forecast to occur on Aug. 5, a five-story-long piece of a rocket from one of the private space exploration company&#8217;s recent lunar missions is expected to hit the moon at around 5,400 miles per hour, around 24 times the speed of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}