{"id":16830,"date":"2016-09-28T04:16:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T10:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=16830"},"modified":"2016-09-28T05:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T11:22:30","slug":"elon-musk-unveils-plans-for-colonizing-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/elon-musk-unveils-plans-for-colonizing-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk unveils plans for colonizing Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script height=\"352px\" width=\"540px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=5xeDA1NjE6_UCSVHEgZSJS6ADksK7Ibo&#038;pbid=91ac0f6dcbdf466c84659dbc54039487\"><\/script><\/p>\n<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote class=\"repubhubembed\">\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled his plans for colonizing Mars, which could eventually involve a fleet of up to 1,000 spaceships to transport as many as 1 million people to the Red Planet. Musk envisions continuous launches from Earth, with massive rockets returning for reuse and spacecraft refueling in a&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style scoped>.repubhubembed{display:none;}<\/style>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/view.act?p=MTY4NDQ=&#038;c=MzgzNTE3MzU=&#038;fuid=MjMyNTQyODU=&#038;s=portal&#038;showDate=false\" height=\"1500\" style=\"width:100%;border:0;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE, change \"showDate=true\" to \"false\" --> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled his plans for colonizing Mars, which could eventually involve a fleet of up to 1,000 spaceships to transport as many as 1 million people to the Red Planet. Musk envisions continuous launches from Earth, with massive rockets returning for reuse and spacecraft refueling in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/elon-musk-unveils-plans-for-colonizing-mars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk unveils plans for colonizing Mars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[765,590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16832,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions\/16832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}