{"id":114671,"date":"2020-10-19T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T09:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/musk-sees-fighting-chance-for-starship-mission-to-mars-in-2024"},"modified":"2020-10-19T02:23:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T09:23:20","slug":"musk-sees-fighting-chance-for-starship-mission-to-mars-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/musk-sees-fighting-chance-for-starship-mission-to-mars-in-2024","title":{"rendered":"Musk Sees \u2018Fighting Chance\u2019 for Starship Mission to Mars in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musk-sees-fighting-chance-for-starship-mission-to-mars-in-20243.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX founder Elon Musk is \u201c80%-90% confident\u201d that the company\u2019s massive new Starship rocket will reach orbit next year and said there\u2019s a chance it will be ready for an uncrewed cargo mission to Mars in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The initial test flights will be difficult and carry a high risk of failure, Musk said Friday at a virtual session of the Mars Society\u2019s 2020 conference. \u201cWe\u2019ll probably lose a few ships before we get the atmospheric return and landing right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX founder Elon Musk is \u201c80%-90% confident\u201d that the company\u2019s massive new Starship rocket will reach orbit next year and said there\u2019s a chance it will be ready for an uncrewed cargo mission to Mars in 2024. The initial test flights will be difficult and carry a high risk of failure, Musk said Friday at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114671","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\/114671","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}