{"id":26529,"date":"2016-06-06T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/spacex-is-heading-to-mars-in-2018-and-sending-humans-in-2025"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:20","slug":"spacex-is-heading-to-mars-in-2018-and-sending-humans-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/spacex-is-heading-to-mars-in-2018-and-sending-humans-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Is Heading to Mars in 2018 and Sending Humans in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-is-heading-to-mars-in-2018-and-sending-humans-in-2025.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is confident that SpaceX will be able to send people to Mars in 2024, with arrival in 2025. This is in line with his long-term vision of colonizing the Red Planet, as he strongly believes it is the next step in ensuring the survival of human civilization.<\/p>\n<p>After saying that the chances of us <em>not<\/em> being a computer simulation <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-says-we-are-all-probably-computer-simulations-seriously\/\">is just one in billions<\/a>, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, went on to say that SpaceX will be sending people to Mars by 2024, with arrival planned for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about what he thinks the government on Mars will be, he playfully joked: \u201cWell I think I was just declared king of Mars a moment ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/spacex-is-heading-to-mars-in-2018-and-sending-humans-in-2025\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/spacex-is-heading-to-mars-in-2018-and-se...s-in-2025\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is confident that SpaceX will be able to send people to Mars in 2024, with arrival in 2025. This is in line with his long-term vision of colonizing the Red Planet, as he strongly believes it is the next step in ensuring the survival of human civilization. After saying that the chances of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529","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=26529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67308,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions\/67308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}