{"id":30954,"date":"2016-10-11T15:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T22:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/obama-wants-to-send-humans-to-mars-by-the-2030s-with-nasa-private-company-collaboration"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:29:28","slug":"obama-wants-to-send-humans-to-mars-by-the-2030s-with-nasa-private-company-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/obama-wants-to-send-humans-to-mars-by-the-2030s-with-nasa-private-company-collaboration","title":{"rendered":"Obama wants to send humans to Mars by the 2030s with NASA, private company collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/obama-wants-to-send-humans-to-mars-by-the-2030s-with-nasa-private-company-collaboration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"PEPLT007408\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/politics-government\/government\/barack-obama-PEPLT007408-topic.html\">President Obama<\/a> said Tuesday that he wants private companies to help send humans to Mars by the 2030s.<\/p>\n<p>Obama first said in 2010 he wanted to send astronauts \u201cto orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth\u201d by the mid-2030s with \u201ca landing on Mars\u201d to follow. In that speech at the Kennedy Space Center, Obama added that he expected to see such a landing in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/11\/opinions\/america-will-take-giant-leap-to-mars-barack-obama\/index.html?sr=twCNN101116america-will-take-giant-leap-to-mars-barack-obama0105PMStoryLink&linkId=29798674\" target=\"_blank\">opinion article<\/a> Tuesday on <a href=\"http:\/\/CNN.com\">CNN.com<\/a>, Obama said private companies would be key to those lofty goals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-obama-mars-20161011-snap-story.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-obama-mars-20161011-snap-story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama said Tuesday that he wants private companies to help send humans to Mars by the 2030s. Obama first said in 2010 he wanted to send astronauts \u201cto orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth\u201d by the mid-2030s with \u201ca landing on Mars\u201d to follow. In that speech at the Kennedy Space Center, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954","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=30954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56791,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954\/revisions\/56791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}