{"id":2015,"date":"2025-05-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2025-06-05T21:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:44:36","slug":"mars-by-2026-the-4-key-takeaways-from-elon-musks-starship-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/mars-by-2026-the-4-key-takeaways-from-elon-musks-starship-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars by 2026? The 4 key takeaways from Elon Musk&#039;s Starship update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mars-by-2026-the-4-key-takeaways-from-elon-musks-starship-up_xafb.640.jpg\">SpaceX sets an ambitious timeline for getting to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/spacex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a><\/u>&#8216;s billionaire founder <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a><\/u> says that despite <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/24796\/get-ready-spacex-starships-first-launch-is-for-real\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starship<\/a><\/u> setbacks, the <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space<\/a> company hasn&#8217;t taken its eyes off the ball \u2014 and that ball is big, red, and roughly 140 million miles away. <\/p>\n<p>In a 42-minute video posted to X on Thursday \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX sets an ambitious timeline for getting to the Red Planet. SpaceX&#8216;s billionaire founder Elon Musk says that despite Starship setbacks, the space company hasn&#8217;t taken its eyes off the ball \u2014 and that ball is big, red, and roughly 140 million miles away. In a 42-minute video posted to X on Thursday \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}