{"id":121620,"date":"2021-04-16T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasa-reportedly-chooses-spacex-to-develop-moon-lander"},"modified":"2021-04-16T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:01:11","slug":"nasa-reportedly-chooses-spacex-to-develop-moon-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasa-reportedly-chooses-spacex-to-develop-moon-lander","title":{"rendered":"NASA Reportedly Chooses SpaceX to Develop Moon Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-reportedly-chooses-spacex-to-develop-moon-lander2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-to-announce-selection-of-human-lander-for-artemis-moon-mission\" class=\"\">officially announced<\/a> that it\u2019s going to announce who it will choose to build a rocket capable of bringing the first astronauts to the Moon\u2019s surface since the Apollo missions.<\/p>\n<p>But news of the decision may have just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/04\/16\/nasa-lunar-lander-contract-spacex\/\" class=\"\">leaked to <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> a little early.<\/p>\n<p>According to documents obtained by the newspaper, NASA has officially chosen Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to to build a lunar lander variant of its Starship spacecraft as part of the agency\u2019s Artemis program \u2014 an extraordinary coup for the spacetech startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA officially announced that it\u2019s going to announce who it will choose to build a rocket capable of bringing the first astronauts to the Moon\u2019s surface since the Apollo missions. But news of the decision may have just leaked to The Washington Post a little early. According to documents obtained by the newspaper, NASA has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121620","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\/121620","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}