{"id":85095,"date":"2018-11-25T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/elon-musk-denies-that-spacexs-mars-colony-will-be-a-ticket-out-for-the-rich"},"modified":"2018-11-25T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T17:22:23","slug":"elon-musk-denies-that-spacexs-mars-colony-will-be-a-ticket-out-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/elon-musk-denies-that-spacexs-mars-colony-will-be-a-ticket-out-for-the-rich","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Denies That SpaceX\u2019s Mars Colony Will Be a Ticket Out for the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Mars colonization inches ever closer to becoming a reality<\/a>, some have argued that the ability to afford a ticket to the Red Planet is a luxury afforded only to the wealthiest members of society<\/a>. Billionaire Elon Musk has said it\u2019ll run potential Mars inhabitants traveling with his company SpaceX hundreds of thousands<\/a> of dollars to get there. But in a new interview, he rebuffed the assertion that a one-way ticket to Mars is an easy ticket out for the rich.<\/p>\n

The comments were part of an interview with the SpaceX and Tesla CEO that will air Sunday evening in the final episode of Axios\u2019 four-part limited documentary series on HBO. In a clip from the interview, Elon Musk hinted that advancements by his company for Mars colonization have been notable and said there\u2019s a \u201c70 percent\u201d chance that he heads to the Red Planet himself.<\/p>\n

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As Mars colonization inches ever closer to becoming a reality, some have argued that the ability to afford a ticket to the Red Planet is a luxury afforded only to the wealthiest members of society. Billionaire Elon Musk has said it\u2019ll run potential Mars inhabitants traveling with his company SpaceX hundreds of thousands of dollars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85095","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}