{"id":72964,"date":"2017-09-30T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/elon-musk-spacex-is-coming-for-mars-in-2022"},"modified":"2017-10-07T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T01:00:51","slug":"elon-musk-spacex-is-coming-for-mars-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/elon-musk-spacex-is-coming-for-mars-in-2022","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: SpaceX Is Coming for Mars in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-spacex-is-coming-for-mars-in-2022.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk said he\u2019s \u201cconfident\u201d the plan will be under way within five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars,\u201d Musk said, adding that he thinks SpaceX has figured out a way to make it affordable by using revenues from the company\u2019s satellite launches, service missions to the International Space Station and by making smaller, more efficient rockets that are mostly reusable.<\/p>\n<p>Nine years after SpaceX\u2019s first successful launch \u2014 its fourth ever \u2014 Musk said his engineers are now perfecting propulsive landing. He believes the BFR rocket can carry out missions to the moon and back without producing propellant, enabling the establishment of a lunar space station.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/09\/29\/elon-musk-space-x-australia\/?utm_campaign=fortunemagazine&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE\">http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/09\/29\/elon-musk-space-x-australia\/?u...ok_FORTUNE<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk said he\u2019s \u201cconfident\u201d the plan will be under way within five years. \u201cI can\u2019t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars,\u201d Musk said, adding that he thinks SpaceX has figured out a way to make it affordable by using revenues from the company\u2019s satellite launches, service missions [\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-72964","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\/72964","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=72964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73115,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964\/revisions\/73115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}