{"id":132544,"date":"2021-12-16T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T05:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-says-ill-be-surprised-if-were-not-landing-on-mars-within-five-years"},"modified":"2021-12-16T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T05:25:10","slug":"elon-musk-says-ill-be-surprised-if-were-not-landing-on-mars-within-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-says-ill-be-surprised-if-were-not-landing-on-mars-within-five-years","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says \u2018I\u2019ll be surprised if we\u2019re not landing on Mars within five years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-ill-be-surprised-if-were-not-landing-on-mars-within-five-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has announced a new timeframe for his massive Mars project, and it is a lot closer than you would believe.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published Monday, Musk said, \u2018I\u2019ll be surprised if we\u2019re not landing on Mars within five years.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, the 50-year-old SpaceX founder and CEO who was selected Time\u2019s Person of the Year, has grandiose ambitions for Mars: a self-sustaining metropolis with solar-powered hydroponic fields where people may live indefinitely, 34 million miles from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has announced a new timeframe for his massive Mars project, and it is a lot closer than you would believe. In an article published Monday, Musk said, \u2018I\u2019ll be surprised if we\u2019re not landing on Mars within five years. Musk, the 50-year-old SpaceX founder and CEO who was selected Time\u2019s Person of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132544","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}