{"id":14043,"date":"2015-04-22T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14043"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:59:23","slug":"nasa-chief-says-mars-one-does-not-stand-a-chance-without-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/nasa-chief-says-mars-one-does-not-stand-a-chance-without-nasa","title":{"rendered":"NASA Chief Says Mars One Does Not Stand A Chance Without NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcolabs.com\/user\/david-lumb\" rel=\"author\">David Lumb<\/a> \u2014 Fast Company<br \/> Mars One, the Netherlands-based nonprofit that wants to send human colonists to Mars using private-industry rockets, has been widely criticized for its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/feb\/23\/mars-one-plan-colonise-red-planet-unrealistic-leading-supporter\" target=\"_blank\">unrealistic goals and timeline<\/a>. This week, in <a href=\"http:\/\/science.house.gov\/hearing\/subcommittee-space-hearing-overview-budget-proposal-national-aeronautics-and-space\" target=\"_blank\">a U.S. House Committee hearing for NASA\u2019s 2016 budget<\/a>, NASA chief administrator <a class=\"profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/person\/charles-bolden\">Charles Bolden<\/a> told the committee that \u201cNo commercial company without the support of NASA and government is going to get to Mars,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/04\/17\/nasa-nobodys-going-to-mars-without-our-help\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports <em>Engadget<\/em><\/a>. Bolden\u2019s statement, while not a direct reference to Mars One, certainly seems to support the skepticism surrounding the project. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3045186\/fast-feed\/nasa-chief-says-mars-one-does-not-stand-a-chance-without-nasa\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Lumb \u2014 Fast Company Mars One, the Netherlands-based nonprofit that wants to send human colonists to Mars using private-industry rockets, has been widely criticized for its unrealistic goals and timeline. This week, in a U.S. House Committee hearing for NASA\u2019s 2016 budget, NASA chief administrator Charles Bolden told the committee that \u201cNo commercial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64753,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions\/64753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}