{"id":115735,"date":"2020-11-11T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-thermal-nuclear-engine-that-could-get-us-to-mars-in-just-3-months"},"modified":"2020-11-11T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:22:32","slug":"the-thermal-nuclear-engine-that-could-get-us-to-mars-in-just-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-thermal-nuclear-engine-that-could-get-us-to-mars-in-just-3-months","title":{"rendered":"The Thermal Nuclear Engine That Could Get Us to Mars in Just 3 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-thermal-nuclear-engine-that-could-get-us-to-mars-in-just-3-months.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s twice as efficient as a chemical rocket.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has designed a new thermal nuclear engine it says could carry astronauts to Mars in just three months\u2014and back to Earth in the same amount of time. By using ceramic microcapsules of high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel, USNC\u2019s thermal nuclear engine could cut the trip in half even from optimistic estimates.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0cYou like our badass universe. So do we. Let\u2019s explore it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s twice as efficient as a chemical rocket. Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has designed a new thermal nuclear engine it says could carry astronauts to Mars in just three months\u2014and back to Earth in the same amount of time. By using ceramic microcapsules of high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel, USNC\u2019s thermal nuclear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115735","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\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}