{"id":124238,"date":"2021-06-25T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-fusion-engine-could-cut-travel-time-to-mars-down-to-six-weeks"},"modified":"2021-06-25T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:23:00","slug":"new-fusion-engine-could-cut-travel-time-to-mars-down-to-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-fusion-engine-could-cut-travel-time-to-mars-down-to-six-weeks","title":{"rendered":"New Fusion Engine Could Cut Travel Time To Mars Down To Six Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-fusion-engine-could-cut-travel-time-to-mars-down-to-six-weeks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2012 Dilithium crystal created.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-fusion-engine-could-cut-travel-time-to-mars-down-to-six-weeks2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fusion Engine Space\" pinger-seen=\"true\">\n<\/p>\n<p>Brace yourselves: Researchers at University of Huntsville in Alabama say they are using \u201cDilithium Crystals\u201d in a new fusion impulse engine that could <strong>cut the travel time to Mars down to as little as six weeks, not the six months it takes now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/txchnologist.com\/post\/32463368168\/channeling-star-trek-researchers-to-begin-fusion\">Txchnologist, an online magazine sponsored<\/a> by General Electric, talked to team member and aerospace engineering PH.D. candidate Ross Cortez, he said \u201cThe fusion fuel we\u2019re focusing on is deuterium [a stable isotope of hydrogen] and Li6 [a stable isotope of the metal lithium] in a crystal structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s basically <a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/Dilithium\">dilithium crystals<\/a> we\u2019re using,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2012 Dilithium crystal created. Brace yourselves: Researchers at University of Huntsville in Alabama say they are using \u201cDilithium Crystals\u201d in a new fusion impulse engine that could cut the travel time to Mars down to as little as six weeks, not the six months it takes now. Txchnologist, an online magazine sponsored by General [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124238","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}