{"id":11976,"date":"2014-08-04T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T19:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11976"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:05:53","slug":"impossible-space-engine-might-work-nasa-test-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/impossible-space-engine-might-work-nasa-test-suggests","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Impossible\u2019 Space Engine Might Work, NASA Test Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"ember1000\" class=\"ember-view\">Mike Wall \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember981\" class=\"ember-view\">NASA researchers have reported fresh evidence that an \u201cimpossible\u201d space propulsion technology might actually work.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember982\" class=\"ember-view\">A study from NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston says a microwave thruster system that requires no propellant appears to generate a tiny amount of thrust. If the technology pans out, it could make spaceflight far cheaper and speedier, advocates say. They argue that the thruster harnesses subatomic particles that pop into and out of existence in accordance with quantum physics \u2014 a hypothesis that\u2019s mentioned in the study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ember-view\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/weird-science\/impossible-space-engine-might-work-nasa-test-suggests-n171201\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Wall \u2014 Space.com NASA researchers have reported fresh evidence that an \u201cimpossible\u201d space propulsion technology might actually work. A study from NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston says a microwave thruster system that requires no propellant appears to generate a tiny amount of thrust. If the technology pans out, it could make spaceflight far [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64930,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions\/64930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}