{"id":71887,"date":"2017-08-13T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T07:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/heres-how-to-fix-the-big-problems-with-elon-musks-mars-spaceship"},"modified":"2017-08-13T00:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T07:02:27","slug":"heres-how-to-fix-the-big-problems-with-elon-musks-mars-spaceship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/heres-how-to-fix-the-big-problems-with-elon-musks-mars-spaceship","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How To Fix The Big Problems With Elon Musk\u2019s Mars Spaceship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-to-fix-the-big-problems-with-elon-musks-mars-spaceship.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week electrovehicle and space transit magnate Elon Musk unveiled his master plan for the human race to become \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-is-how-elon-musk-plans-to-build-a-city-on-mars-up-1787146547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a multi-planetary species<\/a>\u201d, starting with travel to Mars. But while I know it\u2019s an act of remarkable hubris for me to even say this, I believe <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-crazy-is-elon-musk-s-mission-to-mars-1787146369#_ga=1.250714246.1273901456.1445270859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX\u2019s plans for their Interplanetary Transport System<\/a> have some pretty glaring flaws. The good news is they are flaws that are easily corrected by applying some decades-old solutions from the American and Soviet space-faring experience.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-is-how-elon-musk-plans-to-build-a-city-on-mars-up-1787146547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going over the system architecture<\/a> and basic spacecraft design, I think there are places where the system can be made to use less fuel, reduce manufacturing complexity, increase crew room, deliver more payload, and more.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/heres-how-to-fix-the-big-problems-with-elon-musks-mars-1787163420\">http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/heres-how-to-fix-the-big-problems-with-e...1787163420<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week electrovehicle and space transit magnate Elon Musk unveiled his master plan for the human race to become \u201ca multi-planetary species\u201d, starting with travel to Mars. But while I know it\u2019s an act of remarkable hubris for me to even say this, I believe SpaceX\u2019s plans for their Interplanetary Transport System have some pretty [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71887","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\/71887","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}