{"id":7427,"date":"2013-03-10T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T16:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2023-06-05T00:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T00:51:41","slug":"how-to-win-the-space-race-die-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/how-to-win-the-space-race-die-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"How to win the space race&#8230; die on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk at SXSW:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Musk explained that he would like to take part in a Mars mission &#8212; and even stay there &#8212; assuming that his companies could survive without him. Indeed, he noted that he&#8217;s long said he wouldn&#8217;t necessarily expect to return to Earth after such a mission. But he would want to know that the rocket technology was good enough to get him there safely. &#8220;I&#8217;ve said I want to die on Mars,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Just not on impact.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More people with this attitude and we might get out of low earth orbit once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk at SXSW: Musk explained that he would like to take part in a Mars mission &#8212; and even stay there &#8212; assuming that his companies could survive without him. Indeed, he noted that he&#8217;s long said he wouldn&#8217;t necessarily expect to return to Earth after such a mission. But he would want to know that the rocket technology was good enough to get him there safely. &#8220;I&#8217;ve said I want to die on Mars,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Just not on impact.&#8221; More people with this attitude and we might get out of low earth orbit once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3645,22,25,38],"tags":[4277,4249,4094],"class_list":["post-7427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3645","category-conferences","category-link-log","category-sxsw","tag-elon-musk","tag-mars","tag-sxsw-interactive","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1VN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67666,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions\/67666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}