{"id":73354,"date":"2017-10-17T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T01:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/dont-doubt-elon-musk-says-astronaut-who-spent-a-year-in-space"},"modified":"2017-10-17T18:23:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T01:23:15","slug":"dont-doubt-elon-musk-says-astronaut-who-spent-a-year-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/dont-doubt-elon-musk-says-astronaut-who-spent-a-year-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t doubt Elon Musk, says astronaut who spent a year in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dont-doubt-elon-musk-says-astronaut-who-spent-a-year-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a> is racing to land SpaceX on Mars in five years, a vision he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/09\/29\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-unveils-mars-voyage-plan.html\">unveiled late last month at the 2017 International Astronautical Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One man not among Musk\u2019s critics is Scott Kelly, a retired astronaut who set the record in 2015 for total accumulated days in space, during the single longest mission by an American.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Elon Musk said he was going to launch his rocket and then land the first stage on a barge, I thought he was crazy,\u201d Kelly told \u201cSquawk Box\u201d on Tuesday. \u201cAnd then he did it. I\u2019m not going to ever doubt what he says, ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/17\/astronaut-scott-kelly-says-dont-doubt-elon-musk.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/17\/astronaut-scott-kelly-says-d...-musk.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is racing to land SpaceX on Mars in five years, a vision he unveiled late last month at the 2017 International Astronautical Congress. One man not among Musk\u2019s critics is Scott Kelly, a retired astronaut who set the record in 2015 for total accumulated days in space, during the single longest mission by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73354","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\/73354","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}