{"id":115268,"date":"2020-10-29T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-funded-scientist-says-mega-drive-could-enable-interstellar-travel"},"modified":"2020-10-30T21:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T04:32:42","slug":"nasa-funded-scientist-says-mega-drive-could-enable-interstellar-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-funded-scientist-says-mega-drive-could-enable-interstellar-travel","title":{"rendered":"NASA-funded scientist says \u2018MEGA drive\u2019 could enable interstellar travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OLs9NEt9LRQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The scientist claims that this design could enable propulsion while only relying on electricity.<\/p>\n<p>But take it with a grain of salt. It seems the propulsion system is based on ideas that are still being validated.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The drive would provide enough thrust for a spacecraft to travel near the speed of light using only electricity, says physicist Jim Woodward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientist claims that this design could enable propulsion while only relying on electricity. But take it with a grain of salt. It seems the propulsion system is based on ideas that are still being validated. The drive would provide enough thrust for a spacecraft to travel near the speed of light using only electricity, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115326,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115268\/revisions\/115326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}