{"id":86944,"date":"2019-01-23T04:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/trump-reportedly-offered-nasa-all-the-money-you-could-ever-need-to-land-on-mars-during-his-presidency"},"modified":"2019-01-23T04:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:22:21","slug":"trump-reportedly-offered-nasa-all-the-money-you-could-ever-need-to-land-on-mars-during-his-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/trump-reportedly-offered-nasa-all-the-money-you-could-ever-need-to-land-on-mars-during-his-presidency","title":{"rendered":"Trump reportedly offered NASA \u2018all the money you could ever need\u2019 to land on Mars during his presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trump-reportedly-offered-nasa-all-the-money-you-could-ever-need-to-land-on-mars-during-his-presidency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some people on his communications staff at the time were not pleased.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Sims writes that he was \u201cgetting antsy\u201d in the room due to Trump\u2019s abrupt question shortly before a televised phone call with the Space Station. NASA officials were believed to have gone to great lengths to coordinate with the Space Station, which could only be reached during a certain time due to \u201corbital mechanics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I could think about was that we had to be on camera in three minutes \u2026 And yet we\u2019re in here casually chatting about shaving a full decade off NASA\u2019s timetable for sending a manned flight to Mars,\u201d Sims reportedly wrote. \u201cAnd seemingly out of nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who appeared \u201cdistracted,\u201d reportedly asked Lightfoot: \u201cBut what if I gave you all the money you could ever need to do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-nasa-land-on-mars-team-of-vipers-2019-1\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-nasa-land-on-mars-team...2019&#45;1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people on his communications staff at the time were not pleased. Sims writes that he was \u201cgetting antsy\u201d in the room due to Trump\u2019s abrupt question shortly before a televised phone call with the Space Station. NASA officials were believed to have gone to great lengths to coordinate with the Space Station, which could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86944","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}