{"id":752775,"date":"2026-07-09T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752775\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:18:07","slug":"interior-department-asks-can-oil-platforms-be-used-for-space-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752775\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Department asks: Can oil platforms be used for space launches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6SFNZXANPVE2PAD65T6NYCQQ5Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Interior Department wants the public to weigh in on one idea for what to do with hundreds of inactive offshore oil platforms: Could they be turned into launchpads for rockets to space? <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RYJWL3QJZJA3DJUWFX6HFXFB7I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The department\u2019s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/07\/08\/2026-13788\/notice-of-request-for-information-potential-use-of-the-outer-continental-shelf-for-offshore-space\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/07\/08\/2026-13788\/notice-of-request-for-information-potential-use-of-the-outer-continental-shelf-for-offshore-space\">issued a request for public comment<\/a> this week \u201cintended to inform BOEM\u2019s understanding of technical, environmental, operational, legal, regulatory, and interagency considerations,\u201d without proposing any specific policy action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Interior Department wants the public to weigh in on one idea for what to do with hundreds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-752775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}