{"id":116573,"date":"2020-12-02T19:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/spacex-will-launch-remote-controlled-racecars-to-lunar-surface"},"modified":"2020-12-02T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T03:22:39","slug":"spacex-will-launch-remote-controlled-racecars-to-lunar-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/spacex-will-launch-remote-controlled-racecars-to-lunar-surface","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Will Launch Remote Controlled Racecars to Lunar Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-will-launch-remote-controlled-racecars-to-lunar-surface.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The racecars themselves will be partially designed by six teams of high school kids from across the country, as <em>New Atlas<\/em> reports. The best two teams emerging from a series of challenges \u201cwill win a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build and race two vehicles on the Moon,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/moonmark.space\/moon-mark-and-intuitive-machines-partner-to-launch-first-ever-race-on-the-moon\/\">February press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompetitors will then race their rovers remotely, navigating through harsh terrain, racing around a sphere of cameras, which will capture every aspect,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>Moon Mark CTO Todd Wallach told <em>New Atlas<\/em> that teams will have \u201cnear real time visuals, telemetry and command and control\u201d of the racecars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The racecars themselves will be partially designed by six teams of high school kids from across the country, as New Atlas reports. The best two teams emerging from a series of challenges \u201cwill win a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build and race two vehicles on the Moon,\u201d according to a February press release. \u201cCompetitors will then [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116573","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=116573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}