{"id":30951,"date":"2016-10-11T13:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T20:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-barack-obama-mars-2030-plan-will-it-really-work"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:22:51","slug":"the-barack-obama-mars-2030-plan-will-it-really-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-barack-obama-mars-2030-plan-will-it-really-work","title":{"rendered":"The Barack Obama Mars 2030 Plan: Will It Really Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0qo78R_yYFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As reported by the <em>AP<\/em>, President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc26.com\/news\/national\/america-will-take-the-giant-leap-to-mars-obama-writes-in-op-ed\">Mars op-ed published at CNN<\/a> today paints a vivid picture in which NASA \u2014 working in concert with other agencies and private industry \u2014 would sometime after 2030 finally make an expedition to the planet Mars. But is the Barack Obama Mars vision for NASA a tangible possibility, or will Elon Musk and SpaceX beat NASA to Mars long before that?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"500\"><p> US President Obama says US is partnering with private firms to send humans to Mars by 2030s \u2013 CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qc9rNIsW3V\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qc9rNIsW3V\">https:\/\/t.co\/qc9rNIsW3V<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking News (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreakingNews\">@BreakingNews<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreakingNews\/status\/785830243886137344\">October 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3587589\/the-barack-obama-mars-2030-plan\/\">http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3587589\/the-barack-obama-mars-2030-plan\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by the AP, President Obama Mars op-ed published at CNN today paints a vivid picture in which NASA \u2014 working in concert with other agencies and private industry \u2014 would sometime after 2030 finally make an expedition to the planet Mars. But is the Barack Obama Mars vision for NASA a tangible possibility, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30951","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\/30951","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=30951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60103,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30951\/revisions\/60103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}