{"id":16901,"date":"2015-09-04T00:29:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/vasimr-heres-how-we-might-reach-mars-in-39-days"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:28:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:28:04","slug":"vasimr-heres-how-we-might-reach-mars-in-39-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/vasimr-heres-how-we-might-reach-mars-in-39-days","title":{"rendered":"VASIMR: Here\u2019s How we Might Reach Mars in 39 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/www.fromquarkstoquasars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Multi-megawatt_VASIMR_spacecraft.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first VASIMR experiment was conducted at MIT in 1983 on their magnetic mirror device plasma device, and in 1998 ASPL created the first VASIMR rocket, the VX-10. By 2005 the ASPL had created the VX-50, which was capable of up to 50kW of plasma discharge. So, what\u2019s so significant about this design?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromquarkstoquasars.com\/vasimr-impulse-engine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first VASIMR experiment was conducted at MIT in 1983 on their magnetic mirror device plasma device, and in 1998 ASPL created the first VASIMR rocket, the VX-10. By 2005 the ASPL had created the VX-50, which was capable of up to 50kW of plasma discharge. So, what\u2019s so significant about this design? Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46003,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901\/revisions\/46003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}