{"id":103393,"date":"2020-03-06T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T00:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/elon-musk-wants-to-build-a-new-starship-every-72-hours-so-he-can-colonize-mars"},"modified":"2020-03-06T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T00:44:34","slug":"elon-musk-wants-to-build-a-new-starship-every-72-hours-so-he-can-colonize-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/elon-musk-wants-to-build-a-new-starship-every-72-hours-so-he-can-colonize-mars","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Wants to Build a New Starship Every 72 Hours So He Can Colonize Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-wants-to-build-a-new-starship-every-72-hours-so-he-can-colonize-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is bulking up his rocket-building workforce\u2014big time. <em>Ars Technica<\/em> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/03\/inside-elon-musks-plan-to-build-one-starship-a-week-and-settle-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/03\/inside-elon-musks-plan-to-build-one-starship-a-week-and-settle-mars\/\">visited the Texas home<\/a> of SpaceX, where Musk was calling a meeting on a Sunday \u201cmorning\u201d at 1 a.m. There\u2019s a lot to unpack here.<\/p>\n<p>To start, Musk is worried that our window of opportunity to make it to Mars is closing\u2014so we better hurry up. After the 1 a.m. meeting, SpaceX added over 250 new employees in two days, representing a full doubling of the workforce.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ars Technica<\/em> visited the day <em>after<\/em> the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/rockets\/a31188071\/watch-spacex-starship-prototype-rocket-implode\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/rockets\/a31188071\/watch-spacex-starship-prototype-rocket-implode\/\">major Starship prototype implosion<\/a> that made news earlier this week. The SN1 prototype blew up as a direct result of weak welds. It sounds like everyone involved knew this prototype was faulty and told Musk so when he asked, and he insists it was never designed to fly for real anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is bulking up his rocket-building workforce\u2014big time. Ars Technica visited the Texas home of SpaceX, where Musk was calling a meeting on a Sunday \u201cmorning\u201d at 1 a.m. There\u2019s a lot to unpack here. To start, Musk is worried that our window of opportunity to make it to Mars is closing\u2014so we better [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}