{"id":16632,"date":"2015-08-24T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/in-the-future-space-planes-could-be-powered-by-microwaves"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:52","slug":"in-the-future-space-planes-could-be-powered-by-microwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/in-the-future-space-planes-could-be-powered-by-microwaves","title":{"rendered":"In The Future, Space Planes Could Be Powered By Microwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-the-future-space-planes-could-be-powered-by-microwaves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over half a century after the dawn of the space age, getting to space remains an epic challenge. Twice this year, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket met a fiery end on the Atlantic Ocean\u2014both attempts to recover and reuse rockets to reduce launch costs. A third rocket never made orbit, exploding on ascent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/this-space-plane-will-use-microwave-beams-to-reach-orbit_55da4213e4b04ae4970387b3?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592&kvcommref=mostpopular\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over half a century after the dawn of the space age, getting to space remains an epic challenge. Twice this year, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket met a fiery end on the Atlantic Ocean\u2014both attempts to recover and reuse rockets to reduce launch costs. A third rocket never made orbit, exploding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69676,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions\/69676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}