{"id":84425,"date":"2018-11-03T16:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T23:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/starman-and-tesla-roadster-have-shot-past-mars-spacex-says"},"modified":"2018-11-03T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T23:42:35","slug":"starman-and-tesla-roadster-have-shot-past-mars-spacex-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/starman-and-tesla-roadster-have-shot-past-mars-spacex-says","title":{"rendered":"Starman and Tesla Roadster Have Shot Past Mars, SpaceX Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starman-and-tesla-roadster-have-shot-past-mars-spacex-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starman and cherry red Tesla Roadster have traveled beyond Mars. SpaceX shared a diagram of the car once driven by the aerospace manufacturer\u2019s CEO Elon Musk indicating it has now reached beyond the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing Starman\u2019s current position in a diagram to Twitter, SpaceX also tweeted a nod to Douglas Adams\u2019 seminal work <em>The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/why-elon-musk-loves-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxys-he-1711846303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beloved<\/a> by Musk. (<em>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe<\/em> refers to the second book in the series.) The dash of the Roadster itself even has a nod to <em>Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide<\/em>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42337-spacex-tesla-roadster-starman-beyond-mars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> notes<\/a> the words \u201cDon\u2019t Panic\u201d on its control panel also appeared on a cover of the novel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/starman-and-tesla-roadster-have-shot-past-mars-spacex-1830202749\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/starman-and-tesla-roadster-have-shot-pas...1830202749<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starman and cherry red Tesla Roadster have traveled beyond Mars. SpaceX shared a diagram of the car once driven by the aerospace manufacturer\u2019s CEO Elon Musk indicating it has now reached beyond the Red Planet. Sharing Starman\u2019s current position in a diagram to Twitter, SpaceX also tweeted a nod to Douglas Adams\u2019 seminal work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84425","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}