{"id":132936,"date":"2021-12-23T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nuclear-salt-water-rocket-is-it-the-only-viable-way-to-get-to-other-planets"},"modified":"2021-12-23T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T19:24:07","slug":"nuclear-salt-water-rocket-is-it-the-only-viable-way-to-get-to-other-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nuclear-salt-water-rocket-is-it-the-only-viable-way-to-get-to-other-planets","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Salt Water Rocket: Is It the Only Viable Way to Get to Other Planets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nuclear-salt-water-rocket-is-it-the-only-viable-way-to-get-to-other-planets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s nuke our way to the stars!<\/p>\n<p>What is required to get us to other planets? A lot of things but mainly energy. Our current rockets simply can\u2019t produce enough energy to get us that far.<\/p>\n<p>American aerospace engineer, author, and advocate for human exploration of Mars Robert Zubrin has one idea for getting us to space and it\u2019s a rather interesting one. It\u2019s called Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) and it replaces traditional chemical propellant with salts of plutonium or 20 p\u2026 See more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s nuke our way to the stars! What is required to get us to other planets? A lot of things but mainly energy. Our current rockets simply can\u2019t produce enough energy to get us that far. American aerospace engineer, author, and advocate for human exploration of Mars Robert Zubrin has one idea for getting us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132936","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}