{"id":1569,"date":"2026-02-09T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:00:26","slug":"forget-mars-elon-says-spacexs-next-big-bet-is-moon-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Forget Mars: Elon says SpaceX\u2019s next big bet is moon city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Elon Musk has once again reshaped SpaceX\u2019s long-term vision, announcing a shift in focus from Mars to building a \u201cself-growing city\u201d on the Moon, citing speed, efficiency, and the future of civilization.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on X on Sunday, Musk revealed that SpaceX is now prioritizing the development of a lunar city over its long-promised mission to Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk explained that travel to Mars is only possible when the planets align every 26 months, with a journey taking around six months. In contrast, missions to the Moon can launch every 10 days, with a travel time of just two days, allowing SpaceX to move faster and iterate more quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement marks a significant shift from Musk\u2019s earlier statements. In 2020, he said SpaceX could land humans on Mars by 2026, suggesting that an uncrewed mission could be sent even sooner.<br><br>SpaceX has a history of delaying large-scale projects due to technical complexity and regulatory hurdles. Just last week, the company delayed NASA\u2019s Artemis 2 mission, which was set to become the first human Moon mission in over 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has once again reshaped SpaceX\u2019s long-term vision, announcing a shift in focus from Mars to building a \u201cself-growing city\u201d on the Moon, citing speed, efficiency, and the future of civilization. In a post on X on Sunday, Musk revealed that SpaceX is now prioritizing the development of a lunar city over its long-promised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}