{"id":84854,"date":"2018-11-18T03:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/elon-musk-says-a-radical-change-is-coming-to-spacexs-monster-mars-rocket-design"},"modified":"2018-11-18T03:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T11:02:44","slug":"elon-musk-says-a-radical-change-is-coming-to-spacexs-monster-mars-rocket-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/elon-musk-says-a-radical-change-is-coming-to-spacexs-monster-mars-rocket-design","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says a \u2018radical change\u2019 is coming to SpaceX\u2019s monster Mars rocket design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-a-radical-change-is-coming-to-spacexs-monster-mars-rocket-design.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li> In a tweet, Musk revealed that \u201cradical change\u201d was coming to the design of the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), which is meant to go to Mars. <\/li>\n<li> The tweet appeared to indicate that the second stage of the Falcon 9 will now be used for component tests for the BFR, and that the company is abandoning plans to make the second stage of Falcon 9 reusable. <\/li>\n<li> Musk has said that his \u201caspirational\u201d goal is to launch an unmanned cargo mission to Mars by 2022. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a tweet, Saturday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced that \u201cradical change\u201d was coming to the design of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/spacex-big-falcon-spaceship-construction-musk-mars-missions-2018-9\" target=\"_blank\">Big Falcon Rocket<\/a> (BFR), that is being made in an attempt to go to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Musk left out any specifics of his plan, simply announcing that \u201cSpaceX is no longer planning to upgrade Falcon 9 second stage for reusability\u201d and would be \u201cAccelerating BFR instead.\u201d Musk called the new design \u201cvery exciting\u201d and \u201cdelightfully counter-intuitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-says-radical-change-coming-to-spacexs-mars-rocket-design-2018-11\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-says-radical-chang...018&#45;11<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a tweet, Musk revealed that \u201cradical change\u201d was coming to the design of the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), which is meant to go to Mars. The tweet appeared to indicate that the second stage of the Falcon 9 will now be used for component tests for the BFR, and that the company is abandoning [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84854","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=84854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}