{"id":408966,"date":"2017-09-29T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/28\/elon-musk-spacex-mars-iac-stream\/21|23226820"},"modified":"2017-09-29T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:57:00","slug":"watch-elon-musk-reveal-something-special-during-mars-talk-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/watch-elon-musk-reveal-something-special-during-mars-talk-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Elon Musk reveal &#8216;something special&#8217; during Mars talk tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/913547943646580737\">tweeted<\/a> that he &#8220;Will be announcing something really special at today&#8217;s talk&#8221; and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/mars\">watch the live stream on YouTube.<\/a> Musk is speaking at the 68th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iac2017.org\/\">International Astronautical Congress 2017<\/a> in Adelaide, Australia, where he&#8217;s going to explain more about his plans to make humanity multi-planetary by colonizing Mars. He recently highlighted an old SpaceX simulation of how its rockets in an Instagram post, and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/08\/heres-a-full-length-look-at-spacexs-spacesuit\/\">posting glamour shots of spacesuits<\/a> all over social media. The talk kicks off local time Friday at 2:30 PM, or 12:30 AM ET \/ 9:30 PM PT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Musk just posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZm88uhg1yN\/\">this<\/a> image to Instagram, showing a &#8220;Moon Base Alpha&#8221; concept, then followed it up with an image of &#8220;Mars City.&#8221; Notably, it&#8217;s appearing a day after Russia and US space agencies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/27\/russia-us-cooperate-on-lunar-base\/\">announced plans<\/a> to team up on an effort, and of course, earlier this year SpaceX said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/02\/27\/spacex-2018-moon-orbit-mission\/\">send two people on a trip around the moon in late 2018<\/a>. Surely we&#8217;ll find out more about more about this plan in just a few hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he &#8220;Will be announcing something really special at today&#8217;s talk&#8221; and you can watch the live stream on YouTube. Musk is speaking at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide, Australia, where he&#8217;s going to explain more about his plans to make humanity multi-planetary by colonizing Mars. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":408967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-408966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}