{"id":145813,"date":"2026-02-09T05:43:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145813"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:43:47","slug":"spacex-puts-mars-on-back-burner-to-focus-on-moon-city-musk-saysunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145813","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX puts Mars on back burner to focus on moon \u2018city\u2019, Musk saysUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostSpaceX is putting its long-standing focus of sending humans to Mars on the back burner to prioritise establishing a settlement on the moon, founder Elon Musk said on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe South Africa-born billionaire\u2019s space company has found massive success as a Nasa contractor, but critics have for years panned Musk\u2019s Mars colonisation plans as overambitious.<br \/>\nThe move also puts Musk in alignment with US President Donald Trump\u2019s shift away from sending Americans to Mars.<br \/>\nThe US faces intense competition&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3342887\/spacex-puts-mars-back-burner-focus-moon-city-musk-says?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostSpaceX is putting its long-standing focus of sending humans to Mars on the back burner to prioritise establishing a settlement on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}