{"id":7975,"date":"2019-01-12T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T16:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=7975"},"modified":"2019-01-12T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T16:37:27","slug":"elon-musk-shows-off-spacexs-tintin-inspired-starship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=7975","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk shows off SpaceX&#8217;s Tintin inspired &#8216;Starship&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"articleBodyText version-2 section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component  version-2\">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p><em>Elon Musk&#8217;s rocket design is being mocked for looking like TinTin&#8217;s rocket, but according to Musk this similarity is deliberate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If in doubt,&#8221; Musk added. &#8220;Go with Tintin.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The new design of the &#8220;Big Falcon Rocket&#8221; is now being called a &#8220;Spaceship Hopper&#8221; and is not intended to actually go orbital. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is for suborbital VTOL (vertical take-off and landing)\u00a0tests,&#8221; Musk tweeted.\u00a0&#8220;Orbital version is taller, has thicker skins (won\u2019t wrinkle) &amp; a smoothly curving nose section.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"ycce5651dd\">This inclination fuels the things Why is Sikander-E-Azam not the same of others? 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