{"id":131115,"date":"2021-11-23T10:49:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-new-challenger-for-elon-musk-another-company-plans-to-settle-humans-on-mars"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:49:28","slug":"a-new-challenger-for-elon-musk-another-company-plans-to-settle-humans-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-new-challenger-for-elon-musk-another-company-plans-to-settle-humans-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"A New Challenger for Elon Musk? Another Company Plans to Settle Humans on Mars"},"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\/YaEDtfUZoM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After raising $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Long ago, the writer Edward Albee wrote: \u201cGood, better, best, bested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a long enough timeline, this might reflect the experience of every major space firm.<\/p>\n<p>Since the federal government ruled in favor of NASA\u2019s decision to opt for SpaceX\u2019s bid to design and deploy a Human Landing System (HLS) to the moon, it\u2019s seemed like Elon Musk and his firm will have the lion\u2019s share of public-private collaborations for lunar missions, and beyond. But in the coming decade, contestants for this role are lining up.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin, which lost a lawsuit against NASA regarding Musk\u2019s contract with the agency, there are other aerospace firms with their eyes on the prize. And one of them, called Sierra Space, just took a major leap toward a rivaling position in Space Race 2.0, raising $1.4 billion to, among other things, modify its Dream Catcher space vehicle for human crews, with aims to land on Mars, and \u201cenable humanity to build and sustain thriving civilizations beyond Earth,\u201d said Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice, in a press release from his company.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-new-challenger-for-elon-musk-another-company-plans-to-settle-humans-on-mars\">Continue reading \u201cA New Challenger for Elon Musk? Another Company Plans to Settle Humans on Mars\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After raising $1.4 billion. Long ago, the writer Edward Albee wrote: \u201cGood, better, best, bested.\u201d On a long enough timeline, this might reflect the experience of every major space firm. Since the federal government ruled in favor of NASA\u2019s decision to opt for SpaceX\u2019s bid to design and deploy a Human Landing System (HLS) to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131115","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}