{"id":990692,"date":"2026-02-09T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990692"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:22:55","slug":"spacex-aiming-to-build-a-self-growing-city-on-moon-shifts-focus-from-mars-elon-musk-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/spacex-aiming-to-build-a-self-growing-city-on-moon-shifts-focus-from-mars-elon-musk-says\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX aiming to build a self-growing city on Moon, shifts focus from Mars, Elon Musk says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the backburner to prioritize establishing a settlement on the Moon, founder Elon Musk said Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The South Africa-born billionaire&#8217;s space company has found massive success as a NASA contractor, but critics have for years panned Musk&#8217;s Mars colonization plans as overambitious. <\/p>\n<p>The move also puts Musk in alignment with US President Donald Trump&#8217;s shift away from sending Americans to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the backburner to prioritize establishing a settlement on the Moon, founder Elon Musk said Sunday. The South Africa-born billionaire&#8217;s space company has found massive success as a NASA contractor, but critics have for years panned Musk&#8217;s Mars colonization plans as overambitious. The move also puts Musk in alignment with US President Donald Trump&#8217;s shift away from sending Americans to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}