{"id":25075,"date":"2016-04-27T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/spacex-is-sending-a-red-dragon-spacecraft-to-mars-in-2018"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:26:55","slug":"spacex-is-sending-a-red-dragon-spacecraft-to-mars-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/spacex-is-sending-a-red-dragon-spacecraft-to-mars-in-2018","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Is Sending a Red Dragon Spacecraft to Mars in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-is-sending-a-red-dragon-spacecraft-to-mars-in-2018.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has been teasing potential Mars plans for a while now, but the company just announced a launch date\u2014and it\u2019s soon. They plan to launch to the surface of Mars in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Especially intriguing is that the announcement refers to the spacecraft as the \u201cRed Dragon.\u201d Does this mean that we\u2019ll be seeing an update to the spacecraft so that it can handle the conditions of the red planet? We hope so.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spacex-is-sending-a-red-dragon-spacecraft-to-mars-in-20-1773383681\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spacex-is-sending-a-red-dragon-spacecraft...1773383681<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has been teasing potential Mars plans for a while now, but the company just announced a launch date\u2014and it\u2019s soon. They plan to launch to the surface of Mars in 2018. Especially intriguing is that the announcement refers to the spacecraft as the \u201cRed Dragon.\u201d Does this mean that we\u2019ll be seeing an update [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075","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\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61955,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075\/revisions\/61955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}