{"id":72957,"date":"2017-09-30T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/spacexs-musk-unveils-plan-to-reach-mars-by-2022"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:13:40","slug":"spacexs-musk-unveils-plan-to-reach-mars-by-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/spacexs-musk-unveils-plan-to-reach-mars-by-2022","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-musk-unveils-plan-to-reach-mars-by-20222.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Futurist and inventor Elon Musk unveiled ambitious plans Friday to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth\u2019s major cities in under half-an-hour.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of SpaceX said a planned interplanetary transport system, codenamed BFR (Big Fucking Rocket), would be downsized so it could carry out a range of tasks that would then pay for future Mars missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing\u2026 is that I think we have figured out how to pay for (BFR),\u201d Musk told a packed auditorium at a global gathering of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space<\/a> experts in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-09-spacex-musk-unveils-mars.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;09-spacex-musk-unveils-mars.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futurist and inventor Elon Musk unveiled ambitious plans Friday to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth\u2019s major cities in under half-an-hour. The founder of SpaceX said a planned interplanetary transport system, codenamed BFR (Big Fucking Rocket), would be downsized so it could carry out a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72957","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\/72957","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}