{"id":25076,"date":"2016-04-27T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/spacex-plans-to-debut-red-dragon-with-2018-mars-mission"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:26:54","slug":"spacex-plans-to-debut-red-dragon-with-2018-mars-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/spacex-plans-to-debut-red-dragon-with-2018-mars-mission","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX plans to debut Red Dragon with 2018 Mars mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-plans-to-debut-red-dragon-with-2018-mars-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has entered into an agreement with NASA for a Dragon mission to Mars, set to take place as early as 2018. Known as \u201cRed Dragon\u201d, the variant of the Dragon 2 spacecraft will be launched by the Falcon Heavy rocket, ahead of a soft landing on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft is set to carry a suite of scientific instrumentation as part of the NASA agreement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Dragon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Martian ambitions are well known, although this year will finally see an outline of the ambitious roadmap that it hopes will eventually result in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/?s=%28MCT%29\">a human colony on the Red Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2016\/04\/spacex-debut-red-dragon-2018-mars-mission\/\">https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2016\/04\/spacex-debut-red-dra...s-mission\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has entered into an agreement with NASA for a Dragon mission to Mars, set to take place as early as 2018. Known as \u201cRed Dragon\u201d, the variant of the Dragon 2 spacecraft will be launched by the Falcon Heavy rocket, ahead of a soft landing on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft is set [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25076","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61954,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25076\/revisions\/61954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}