{"id":109985,"date":"2020-07-15T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/will-spacex-colonists-find-life-on-the-red-planet"},"modified":"2020-07-15T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T16:42:18","slug":"will-spacex-colonists-find-life-on-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/will-spacex-colonists-find-life-on-the-red-planet","title":{"rendered":"Will SpaceX Colonists Find Life On The Red Planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zSv0Y7qrzQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>These days, you\u2019d have to actually be living on Mars not to have heard that Elon Musk wants to colonize it \u2014 and his team at SpaceX is putting in overtime to make it happen. They worked straight through December on refinements to their latest <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SpaceX_Starship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Starship<\/a> spacecraft prototype, which Musk says will begin performing high-altitude tests within <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/12\/30\/elon-musk-details-spacex-progress-on-latest-starship-spacecraft-build-and-flight-timelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">2 to 3 months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has set the goal of first sending a cargo mission to Mars in 2022, and following it up with a manned mission in 2024 \u2014 which makes SpaceX the contender to put the first human footprint on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>Musk isn\u2019t stopping there, however \u2014 back in November, he reiterated his long-term goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/11\/07\/elon-musk-says-building-the-first-sustainable-city-on-mars-will-take-1000-starships-and-20-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">building a city on Mars<\/a>, which he believes will require SpaceX building &amp; flying around 1,000 Starships moving cargo, passengers &amp; infrastructure to Mars over about 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, you\u2019d have to actually be living on Mars not to have heard that Elon Musk wants to colonize it \u2014 and his team at SpaceX is putting in overtime to make it happen. They worked straight through December on refinements to their latest Starship spacecraft prototype, which Musk says will begin performing high-altitude [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109985","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\/109985","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\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}