{"id":135066,"date":"2022-02-01T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/hibernate-for-a-trip-to-mars-the-bear-way"},"modified":"2022-02-01T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:22:52","slug":"hibernate-for-a-trip-to-mars-the-bear-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/hibernate-for-a-trip-to-mars-the-bear-way","title":{"rendered":"Hibernate for a trip to Mars, the bear way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWxOVvi_Wd8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hibernating astronauts could be the best way to save mission costs, reduce the size of spacecraft by a third and keep crew healthy on their way to Mars. An ESA-led investigation suggests that human hibernation goes beyond the realm of science-fiction and may become a game-changing technique for space travel.<\/p>\n<p>When packing for a return flight to the Red Planet, space engineers account for around two years\u2019 worth of food and water for the crew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are talking about 30 kg per astronaut per day, and on top of that we need to consider radiation as well as mental and physiological challenges,\u201d explains Jennifer Ngo-Anh, ESA research and payload coordinator of Human and Robotic Exploration and one of the authors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0149763421004425\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> that links biology to engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hibernating astronauts could be the best way to save mission costs, reduce the size of spacecraft by a third and keep crew healthy on their way to Mars. An ESA-led investigation suggests that human hibernation goes beyond the realm of science-fiction and may become a game-changing technique for space travel. When packing for a return [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135066","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\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}