{"id":210558,"date":"2025-04-04T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/mars-next-and-all-of-the-above"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:40:11","slug":"mars-next-and-all-of-the-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/mars-next-and-all-of-the-above","title":{"rendered":"Mars Next and \u201cAll of the Above\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-next-and-all-of-the-above.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the next administration takes shape, countless voices are vying for influence over the future of America\u2019s space program. I\u2019d wager one in particular \u2014 someone apparently very close to the President-elect \u2014 might be suggesting a bold new direction: \u201cSir. Forget racing China to the moon,\u201d Elon Musk may be saying. \u201cWe\u2019re almost ready with Starship. Announce we\u2019ll launch humans to Mars by 2029 \u2014 the Apollo anniversary. You\u2019ll go down in history! You\u2019ll be as big as Kennedy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If I had that access, it\u2019s exactly what I\u2019d be saying.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. SpaceX is making remarkable progress on Starship. If they can overcome FAA regulatory hurdles, they could have a revolutionary, reusable Earth-to-space system operational within a year. The next step, in-orbit refueling, could take another year or two to master. By 2028, Starship could be ready for missions to the moon, Mars, or beyond. Right behind it will be Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin with New Glenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the next administration takes shape, countless voices are vying for influence over the future of America\u2019s space program. I\u2019d wager one in particular \u2014 someone apparently very close to the President-elect \u2014 might be suggesting a bold new direction: \u201cSir. Forget racing China to the moon,\u201d Elon Musk may be saying. \u201cWe\u2019re almost ready [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210558","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\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}