{"id":131739,"date":"2021-12-03T23:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T07:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/60-years-and-counting-radioisotope-power-systems-have-helped-power-dozens-of-nasa-research-missions-by-converting-the-natural-decay-of-plutonium-238-into-electrical-power"},"modified":"2021-12-03T23:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T07:23:29","slug":"60-years-and-counting-radioisotope-power-systems-have-helped-power-dozens-of-nasa-research-missions-by-converting-the-natural-decay-of-plutonium-238-into-electrical-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/60-years-and-counting-radioisotope-power-systems-have-helped-power-dozens-of-nasa-research-missions-by-converting-the-natural-decay-of-plutonium-238-into-electrical-power","title":{"rendered":"60 YEARS AND COUNTING: Radioisotope power systems have helped power dozens of NASA research missions by converting the natural decay of plutonium-238 into electrical power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/60-years-and-counting-radioisotope-power-systems-have-helped-power-dozens-of-nasa-research-missions-by-converting-the-natural-decay-of-plutonium-238-into-electrical-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of these systems are still in operation today more than 40 years after they launched!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of these systems are still in operation today more than 40 years after they launched!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131739","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}