{"id":3924061,"date":"2026-02-21T20:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/occupy-mars-or-the-moon-get-a-reality-check-on-elon-musks-plans\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:05:24","slug":"occupy-mars-or-the-moon-get-a-reality-check-on-elon-musks-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/occupy-mars-or-the-moon-get-a-reality-check-on-elon-musks-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Mars? Or the moon? Get a reality check on Elon Musk&#8217;s plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It&#8217;s an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity&#8217;s first city on another world be built on the moon, or on Mars? As recently as last year, SpaceX founder Elon Musk saw missions to the moon as a &#8220;distraction.&#8221; In a post to his X social-media platform, he declared that &#8220;we&#8217;re going straight to Mars.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-occupy-mars-moon-reality-elon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity&#8217;s first city on another world be built on the moon, or on Mars? As recently as last year, SpaceX founder Elon Musk saw missions to the moon as a &#8220;distraction.&#8221; In a post to his X social-media platform, he declared that &#8220;we&#8217;re going straight to Mars.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}