{"id":83122,"date":"2018-09-28T03:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T10:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/a-base-on-mars-it-could-happen-by-2028-elon-musk-says"},"modified":"2018-09-28T03:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T10:22:22","slug":"a-base-on-mars-it-could-happen-by-2028-elon-musk-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/a-base-on-mars-it-could-happen-by-2028-elon-musk-says","title":{"rendered":"A Base on Mars? It Could Happen by 2028, Elon Musk Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-base-on-mars-it-could-happen-by-2028-elon-musk-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity could have an outpost on Mars just a decade from now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18849-elon-musk.html\">Elon Musk<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s company SpaceX is building a huge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41901-spacex-bfr-mars-spaceship-rocket-design-changes.html\">reusable rocket-spaceship duo called the BFR<\/a> to help our species explore and settle Earth\u2019s moon, Mars and other worlds throughout the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire entrepreneur\u2019s long-term vision involves the establishment of a million-person city on the Red Planet in the next 50 to 100 years. But we could get the founding infrastructure of such a settlement \u2014 an outpost Musk calls Mars Base Alpha \u2014 up and running much sooner than that, he said. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/38315-spacex-mars-colonization-architecture-bfr-images.html\">The BFR in Images: SpaceX\u2019s Giant Spaceship for Mars &amp; Beyond<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41935-mars-base-alpha-2028-elon-musk.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/41935-mars-base-alpha-2028-elon-musk.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity could have an outpost on Mars just a decade from now, Elon Musk said. Musk\u2019s company SpaceX is building a huge, reusable rocket-spaceship duo called the BFR to help our species explore and settle Earth\u2019s moon, Mars and other worlds throughout the solar system. The billionaire entrepreneur\u2019s long-term vision involves the establishment of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83122","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\/83122","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\/444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}