{"id":186908,"date":"2024-04-06T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/nasa-investigating-whether-it-could-hire-spacex-for-mars-trip"},"modified":"2024-04-06T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T20:04:48","slug":"nasa-investigating-whether-it-could-hire-spacex-for-mars-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/nasa-investigating-whether-it-could-hire-spacex-for-mars-trip","title":{"rendered":"NASA Investigating Whether It Could Hire SpaceX for Mars Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-investigating-whether-it-could-hire-spacex-for-mars-trip3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is debating whether to work with commercial partners to get to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>And while SpaceX is the \u201celephant in the room,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2024\/02\/for-the-first-time-nasa-has-asked-industry-about-private-missions-to-mars\/\" class=\"\"><em>Ars Technica<\/em> put it<\/a>, NASA is keeping its options wide open.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a notable change, as the first time the space agency has openly raised the possibility of working with private space companies to reach Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is debating whether to work with commercial partners to get to Mars. And while SpaceX is the \u201celephant in the room,\u201d as Ars Technica put it, NASA is keeping its options wide open. It\u2019s a notable change, as the first time the space agency has openly raised the possibility of working with private space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186908","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=186908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}