{"id":7901,"date":"2015-03-18T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2015-03-18T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:34:06","slug":"spacex-no-one-laughs-anymore-when-we-talk-about-colonizing-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/03\/18\/spacex-no-one-laughs-anymore-when-we-talk-about-colonizing-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX: No One Laughs Anymore When We Talk About Colonizing Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Elon Musk founded SpaceX, way back in 2002, the plan was to colonize Mars. The company is now profitable, America\u2019s number one choice for flying astronauts to the International Space Station, and thinking about building a satellite-based internet to connect the world. But all of those are stepping stones for the Mars plan, which is very much still the focus of the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not shy about talking about Mars, which would be an extraordinary step for humans, to actually have a settlement there,\u201d SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said Tuesday at the Satellite conference in Washington, DC. \u201cThe whole company is geared up on that, everybody\u2019s eye is on the Red Planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mars One, a long shot, crowdsourced plan to colonize Mars, \u200bis apparently in shambles, so, even on the non-SpaceX front, there\u2019s not much in the way of a concrete plan to get to Mars. We know that SpaceX is developing a methane-based rocket engine known as Raptor to get to Mars, but beyond that, much of it is speculative. That said, the company is still deadly serious about getting there, eventually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we talked about Mars before, people thought we were certifiable,\u201d Shotwell said. \u201cNow, people kind of groove on it and they like to hear about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/megalextoria.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/spacex-no-one-laughs-anymore-when-we.html\">SpaceX: No One Laughs Anymore When We Talk About Colonizing Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Elon Musk founded SpaceX, way back in 2002, the plan was to colonize Mars. The company is now profitable, America\u2019s number one choice for flying astronauts to the International Space Station, and thinking about building a satellite-based internet to connect the world. But all of those are stepping stones for the Mars plan, which is very much still the focus of the company. \u201cWe\u2019re not shy about talking about Mars, which would be an extraordinary step for humans, to actually have a settlement there,\u201d SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said Tuesday at the Satellite conference in Washington, DC. \u201cThe whole company is geared up on that, everybody\u2019s eye is on the Red Planet.\u201d Mars One, a long shot, crowdsourced plan to colonize Mars, \u200bis apparently in shambles, so, even on the non-SpaceX front, there\u2019s not much in the way of a concrete plan to get to Mars. We know that SpaceX is developing a methane-based rocket engine known as Raptor to get to Mars, but beyond that, much of it is speculative. That said, the company is still deadly serious about getting there, eventually. \u201cWhen we talked about Mars before, people thought we were certifiable,\u201d Shotwell said. \u201cNow, people kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1091,1592],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-mars","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}