{"id":127898,"date":"2021-09-20T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/after-inspiration4-triumph-elon-musk-hints-at-his-actual-longterm-goal"},"modified":"2021-09-20T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T00:22:17","slug":"after-inspiration4-triumph-elon-musk-hints-at-his-actual-longterm-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/after-inspiration4-triumph-elon-musk-hints-at-his-actual-longterm-goal","title":{"rendered":"After Inspiration4 triumph, Elon Musk hints at his actual longterm goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-inspiration4-triumph-elon-musk-hints-at-his-actual-longterm-goal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reiterated his support for terraforming Mars, as part of his long-term goal to make humanity into a multi-planetary species.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On Sunday, the day after SpaceX\u2019s all-civilian mission to orbit returned to Earth, the CEO took to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1439665308101402643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> to suggest that he\u2019s still got his sights set on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/elon-musk-terraform-mars\">long-term goal<\/a> of making Mars a more Earth-like world. In response to a post about Mars temperatures, which claimed the average surface temperature is around minus 63 degrees Celsius (minus 82 degrees Fahrenheit), Musk responded: \u201cNeeds a little warming up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments hint at Musk\u2019s goal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/spacex-mars-city-terraforming\">stated multiple times<\/a> over the years, that he would like to transform the planet\u2019s atmosphere to make it more hospitable to human life. It forms part of his overall goal with SpaceX: reduce spaceflight costs, use it to establish permanent human presences elsewhere in space, and transform humanity into a multi-planetary species.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the Inspiration4 mission, it\u2019s a reminder that Musk wants to do more than send private citizens into space for orbital trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reiterated his support for terraforming Mars, as part of his long-term goal to make humanity into a multi-planetary species. On Sunday, the day after SpaceX\u2019s all-civilian mission to orbit returned to Earth, the CEO took to Twitter to suggest that he\u2019s still got his sights set on the long-term goal of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,38,1507,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-engineering","category-environmental","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127898","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}