{"id":131081,"date":"2021-11-22T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-reveals-bold-plan-to-put-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon-within-10-years"},"modified":"2021-11-22T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:23:58","slug":"nasa-reveals-bold-plan-to-put-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon-within-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-reveals-bold-plan-to-put-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon-within-10-years","title":{"rendered":"NASA Reveals Bold Plan to Put a Nuclear Reactor on The Moon Within 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-reveals-bold-plan-to-put-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon-within-10-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/moon\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Moon\">The Moon<\/a> awaits. After long decades in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronauts-explain-why-nobody-s-visited-the-moon-in-more-than-45-years-and-the-answer-s-a-little-depressing\">no human being<\/a> set foot on the lunar surface, we are heading back. And quite soon.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-just-unveiled-its-details-and-risky-plan-to-get-humans-back-on-the-moon-by-2024\">NASA-led Artemis program<\/a>, astronauts are returning to the lunar environment as soon as 2024, with a view to ultimately establishing a long-term human presence on the Moon \u2013 a place we haven\u2019t seen in person since 1972.<\/p>\n<p>To live and work on the Moon, though, astronauts will need power and plenty of it, and there\u2019s no power grid on the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon awaits. After long decades in which no human being set foot on the lunar surface, we are heading back. And quite soon. As part of the NASA-led Artemis program, astronauts are returning to the lunar environment as soon as 2024, with a view to ultimately establishing a long-term human presence on the Moon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131081","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}