{"id":19661,"date":"2015-02-16T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-founder-elon-musk-inks-3-5m-book-deal-to-write-about-earth-and-mars\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:45:53","slug":"spacex-founder-elon-musk-inks-3-5m-book-deal-to-write-about-earth-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-founder-elon-musk-inks-3-5m-book-deal-to-write-about-earth-and-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX founder Elon Musk inks $3.5M book deal to write about Earth and Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150496\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-150496\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/muskelon1211-620x420.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk\" width=\"620\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/muskelon1211-620x420.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/muskelon1211-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/muskelon1211.jpg 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-150496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elon Musk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Like he needed the cash, Tesla and SpaceX head honcho Elon Musk just signed a $3.5 million book deal with Penguin.<\/p>\n<p>Details are scarce at this point, but apparently&nbsp;it\u2019s a book about Earth and Mars, \u201chalf&nbsp;about the issues facing us on Earth \u2014 sustainability issues in particular.&nbsp;The second half will be about the idea of a multiplanetary existence \u2014 about what\u2019s possible, about the adventure of experience,\u201d according to <em>Business Insider<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Several publishers were pitched on the project and reportedly all bid for it. According to <em>BI<\/em>, Penguin \u201cflew someone out to meet with Musk at SpaceX\u2019s California headquarters,\u201d and they sealed the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The book deal is worth a reported $3.5 million, but<em> BI<\/em>\u2018s sources also say that number is \u201clow,\u201d and&nbsp;that Musk intends to write the book himself and not use a ghost writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk Like he needed the cash, Tesla and SpaceX head honcho Elon Musk just signed a $3.5 million book deal with Penguin. Details are scarce at this point, but apparently&nbsp;it\u2019s a book about Earth and Mars, \u201chalf&nbsp;about the issues facing us on Earth \u2014 sustainability issues in particular.&nbsp;The second half will be about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1045,21,316,3086],"class_list":["post-19661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}