{"id":168287,"date":"2023-07-25T06:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-fusion-rocket-designed-to-travel-500000-mph-is-under-construction"},"modified":"2023-07-25T06:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:23:03","slug":"a-fusion-rocket-designed-to-travel-500000-mph-is-under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-fusion-rocket-designed-to-travel-500000-mph-is-under-construction","title":{"rendered":"A fusion rocket designed to travel 500,000 mph is under construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-fusion-rocket-designed-to-travel-500000-mph-is-under-construction3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A British aerospace startup is working on a fusion rocket it says will slash the amount of time it takes astronauts to travel to Mars and beyond \u2014 allowing humans to explore places that are currently far out of reach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge: <\/strong>Long-term exposure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/astronaut-sleeping-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">microgravity<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/radiation-on-mars-fungus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cosmic radiation<\/a> can cause serious health issues for astronauts. That means NASA needs to keep its future Mars missions short enough that astronauts come home healthy \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-08-mars-mission-viable-doesnt-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less than 4 years<\/a> should work.<\/p>\n<p>Using our current rocket propulsion technology, though, it\u2019s going to take seven months just to get astronauts to Mars. Factor in the amount of time to get back to Earth, and nearly a third of a Mars astronaut\u2019s mission is just going to be dedicated to the commute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British aerospace startup is working on a fusion rocket it says will slash the amount of time it takes astronauts to travel to Mars and beyond \u2014 allowing humans to explore places that are currently far out of reach. The challenge: Long-term exposure to microgravity and cosmic radiation can cause serious health issues for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1495,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-health","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168287","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=168287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}