{"id":71023,"date":"2017-07-19T20:22:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/elon-musk-we-need-to-build-a-base-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:47","slug":"elon-musk-we-need-to-build-a-base-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/elon-musk-we-need-to-build-a-base-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: We need to build a base on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-we-need-to-build-a-base-on-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trib.al\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a> thinks we need to build a base on the moon if we are going to stoke public interest in space travel.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the International Space Station (ISS) Research &amp; Development Conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, the SpaceX founder and leader spoke about the various opportunities space offers for business and innovation. He also lamented that many people seem to be unaware of the International Space Station, or do not seem to fully understand \u201chow cool the ISS is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked what opportunities space affords, Musk cited several things, but said, \u201cIf you want to get the public fired up, you\u2019ve got to put a base on the moon,\u201d adding that it would be the \u201ccontinuance to the dream\u201d of the Apollo missions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/07\/19\/elon-musk-we-need-to-build-a-base-on-the-moon.html?_source=FacebookINT&__source=Facebook\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/07\/19\/elon-musk-we-need-to-build-a-...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk thinks we need to build a base on the moon if we are going to stoke public interest in space travel. Speaking at the International Space Station (ISS) Research &amp; Development Conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, the SpaceX founder and leader spoke about the various opportunities space offers for business and innovation. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71023","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71123,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71023\/revisions\/71123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}