{"id":30783,"date":"2016-10-05T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T22:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-new-private-space-race-as-boeing-ceo-says-hell-beat-spacex-to-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:24:07","slug":"a-new-private-space-race-as-boeing-ceo-says-hell-beat-spacex-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-new-private-space-race-as-boeing-ceo-says-hell-beat-spacex-to-mars","title":{"rendered":"A new private space race as Boeing CEO says he\u2019ll beat SpaceX to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-private-space-race-as-boeing-ceo-says-hell-beat-spacex-to-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may be thinking this is not a big deal but u would be wrong. Competition DRIVES INNOVATION!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Competition breeds progress, so it\u2019s a bit thrilling to hear Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg say that he\u2019s going to beat SpaceX to Mars in terms of delivering real humans to the surface of the red planet.<\/p>\n<p>Muilenburg said that he\u2019s \u201cconvinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing rocket,\u201d speaking at a conference in Chicago Tuesday, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-10-04\/boeing-ceo-vows-to-beat-musk-to-mars-as-new-space-race-beckons\">Bloomberg<\/a>. Boeing is working on a heavy-lift rocket project called the Space Launch System which would aim for a similar goal to what SpaceX is hoping to achieve with its Interplanetary Transport System, the details of which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared in a keynote presented at an international aeronautics convention last week.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing and SpaceX are already close competitors when it comes to commercial spaceflight contracts from NASA, and the company\u2019s approach to its system designed for reaching Mars reflects similar tensions to those present in the ongoing battle between the two for space missions closer to home. Boeing\u2019s plan involves at least $60 billion in NASA-funded development prior to a human-crewed Mars mission in the late 2030s at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/05\/a-new-private-space-race-as-boeing-ceo-says-hell-beat-spacex-to-mars\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/05\/a-new-private-space-race-a...x-to-mars\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be thinking this is not a big deal but u would be wrong. Competition DRIVES INNOVATION! Competition breeds progress, so it\u2019s a bit thrilling to hear Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg say that he\u2019s going to beat SpaceX to Mars in terms of delivering real humans to the surface of the red planet. Muilenburg [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30783","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\/30783","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60176,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30783\/revisions\/60176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}