{"id":232874,"date":"2026-02-09T11:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=232874"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:57:03","slug":"musk-aims-to-build-a-self-growing-city-on-the-moon-before-settling-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/232874\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk aims to build a \u2018self-growing city\u201d on the Moon before settling Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a “self‑growing city” on the moon, which could be achieved in less than 10 years, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

SpaceX still intends to start on Musk’s long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X social media platform, “but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”<\/p>\n

SpaceX has informed investors of its plans to achieve an uncrewed lunar landing by March 2027, with the spacecraft set to touch down on the Moon without any astronauts onboard.<\/p>\n

Musk’s announcement highlights the intense competition with China in lunar exploration, especially given that no humans have landed on the Moon since 1972.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a “self‑growing city” on the moon, which could be achieved in less than 10 years, Reuters writes. SpaceX still intends to start on Musk’s long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":232865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232877,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232874\/revisions\/232877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}