{"id":145908,"date":"2026-02-10T12:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145908"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:09:50","slug":"will-musks-moon-pivot-put-spacex-on-collision-course-with-chinas-lunar-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145908","title":{"rendered":"Will Musk\u2019s moon pivot put SpaceX on collision course with China\u2019s lunar ambitions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostElon Musk has pivoted from his long-standing focus on Mars, announcing an ambitious plan to set up a \u201cself-growing city\u201d on the moon in less than a decade.<br \/>\nThe plan could see Musk\u2019s aerospace company, SpaceX, competing for prime space with China\u2019s planned International Lunar Research Station, which Beijing aims to establish by 2035.<br \/>\nWhile it is possible both the US and China could have bases on the moon within a decade, a space expert said it would require massive infrastructure that neither&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3343083\/will-musks-moon-pivot-put-spacex-collision-course-chinas-lunar-ambitions?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostElon Musk has pivoted from his long-standing focus on Mars, announcing an ambitious plan to set up a \u201cself-growing city\u201d on the moon in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145908"}],"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=145908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}