{"id":23872,"date":"2016-03-22T23:50:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T06:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/nasa-scientists-say-we-could-colonise-the-moon-by-2022-for-just-10-billion"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:00","slug":"nasa-scientists-say-we-could-colonise-the-moon-by-2022-for-just-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/nasa-scientists-say-we-could-colonise-the-moon-by-2022-for-just-10-billion","title":{"rendered":"NASA scientists say we could colonise the Moon by 2022\u2026 for just $10 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-scientists-say-we-could-colonise-the-moon-by-2022-for-just-10-billion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot of focus over the past 12 months has been on NASA\u2019s journey to Mars. But a group of space experts, including leading NASA scientists, has now produced a special journal edition that details how we could establish a human colony on the Moon in the next seven years \u2014 all for US$10 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Although that\u2019s pretty awesome, the goal isn\u2019t really the Moon itself \u2014 from an exploratory point of view, most scientists have bigger targets in sight. But the lessons we\u2019ll learn and the technology we\u2019ll develop building a human base outside of Earth will eventually be the key to colonising Mars, and other planets, according to the experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy interest is not the Moon. To me the Moon is as dull as a ball of concrete,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/quest.nasa.gov\/people\/bios\/space\/mckay.html\">NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay<\/a>, who edited the special, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.liebertpub.com\/toc\/space\/4\/1\">open-access issue of <em>New Space<\/em><\/a> journal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/we-could-be-living-on-moon-in-10-years-or-less\">told Sarah Fecht over at <em>Popular Science<\/em><\/a>. \u201cBut we\u2019re not going to have a research base on Mars until we can learn how to do it on the Moon first. The Moon provides a blueprint to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-scientists-say-we-could-colonise-the-moon-by-2022-for-just-10-billion\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-scientists-say-we-could-col...10-billion<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of focus over the past 12 months has been on NASA\u2019s journey to Mars. But a group of space experts, including leading NASA scientists, has now produced a special journal edition that details how we could establish a human colony on the Moon in the next seven years \u2014 all for US$10 billion. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67938,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872\/revisions\/67938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}