{"id":81981,"date":"2012-11-29T00:43:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-outlines-plans-for-manned-mission-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T00:43:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:43:40","slug":"spacex-outlines-plans-for-manned-mission-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-outlines-plans-for-manned-mission-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Outlines Plans for Manned Mission to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: SpaceX, Reusable rocket, Fuel, Methane, Mars<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 11\/26\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"127\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/rsz_red_dragon_landing.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Artist\u2019s rendition of a Dragon spacecraft using its SuperDraco thrusters to land on Mars.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: SpaceX\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u2019s founder and CEO, Elon Musk, outlined the company\u2019s plans for a manned mission to Mars within 15 years and the possibility of human colonization of the red planet during his lecture at the <strong>Royal Aeronautical Society<\/strong> in London, where we has awarded the Gold Medal, the society\u2019s highest award. <\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s plan depends on developing a methane-powered rocket. Scientists have found the presence of a carbon dioxide atmosphere and ice on the planet, which, through the Sabatier reaction, would allow the possibility to manufacture methane to refuel the rockets.  <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, methane would help keeping the costs down, another factor on which the mission\u2019s feasibility would rely. Methane is an inexpensive fuel compared to others and it offers good impulse; Russia has already made advances in methane-powered rockets. <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is planning on using methane fuel in its future rockets as part of the long-term planning, while still working on a reusable vertical takeoff and landing vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: SpaceX, Reusable rocket, Fuel, Methane, Mars Publication Date: 11\/26\/2012 Artist\u2019s rendition of a Dragon spacecraft using its SuperDraco thrusters to land on Mars. Image credit: SpaceX SpaceX\u2019s founder and CEO, Elon Musk, outlined the company\u2019s plans for a manned mission to Mars within 15 years and the possibility of human colonization of the red [&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":[],"class_list":["post-81981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81981"}],"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=81981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}