{"id":176530,"date":"2023-11-23T02:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T08:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasas-new-power-play-plutonium-238-for-distant-space-journeys"},"modified":"2023-11-23T02:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T08:23:57","slug":"nasas-new-power-play-plutonium-238-for-distant-space-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasas-new-power-play-plutonium-238-for-distant-space-journeys","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s New Power Play: Plutonium-238 for Distant Space Journeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-new-power-play-plutonium-238-for-distant-space-journeys2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DOE\u2019s shipment of 0.5 kilograms of plutonium-238 to Los Alamos National Laboratory marks a milestone in producing fuel for NASA<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It is responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. Its vision is \u201cTo discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity.\u201d Its core values are \u201csafety, integrity, teamwork, excellence, and inclusion.\u201d NASA conducts research, develops technology and launches missions to explore and study Earth, the solar system, and the universe beyond. It also works to advance the state of knowledge in a wide range of scientific fields, including Earth and space science, planetary science, astrophysics, and heliophysics, and it collaborates with private companies and international partners to achieve its goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DOE\u2019s shipment of 0.5 kilograms of plutonium-238 to Los Alamos National Laboratory marks a milestone in producing fuel for NASA Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It is responsible for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176530","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}