{"id":127329,"date":"2021-09-06T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/physicist-designs-plasma-thruster-that-could-make-space-travel-10-times-faster"},"modified":"2021-09-06T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T03:22:47","slug":"physicist-designs-plasma-thruster-that-could-make-space-travel-10-times-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/physicist-designs-plasma-thruster-that-could-make-space-travel-10-times-faster","title":{"rendered":"Physicist Designs Plasma Thruster That Could Make Space Travel 10 Times Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicist-designs-plasma-thruster-that-could-make-space-travel-10-times-faster3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll take about <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/mars2020\/timeline\/cruise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seven months<\/a> to send humans to Mars using today\u2019s spaceships. That\u2019s not exactly a quick jaunt, but it is doable.<\/p>\n<p>Trips to other planets could take <em>years<\/em>, though, and if we want to explore the rest of our solar system \u2014 or the places beyond it \u2014 we\u2019re going to need a faster way to travel.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a physicist has designed a new rocket thruster that could potentially allow humans to travel 10 times faster in space \u2014 and it\u2019s inspired by nuclear fusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019ll take about seven months to send humans to Mars using today\u2019s spaceships. That\u2019s not exactly a quick jaunt, but it is doable. Trips to other planets could take years, though, and if we want to explore the rest of our solar system \u2014 or the places beyond it \u2014 we\u2019re going to need a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127329","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}