{"id":18464,"date":"2015-10-15T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/how-traveling-to-deep-space-in-cryogenic-sleep-could-actually-work"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:31:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:31:32","slug":"how-traveling-to-deep-space-in-cryogenic-sleep-could-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/how-traveling-to-deep-space-in-cryogenic-sleep-could-actually-work","title":{"rendered":"How Traveling to Deep Space In Cryogenic Sleep Could Actually Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-traveling-to-deep-space-in-cryogenic-sleep-could-actually-work.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our bodies aren\u2019t meant for space. We require too much maintenance to speed through the stars. We need a steady supply of things absent from space \u2014 namely water, food and oxygen. We crave warmth but won\u2019t find it in deep space, where the average temperature is &minus;455 degrees Fahrenheit. Even if we could survive in an icy vacuum without sustenance, we\u2019d probably go insane without distractions and room to move.<\/p>\n<p>But aeronautic engineers believe they have found the key to solving that puzzle: put your space travelers to sleep. Long-term cryogenic and hibernative sleep may be the key to getting humans to Mars, and beyond. But it may first come to a spa near you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-traveling-to-deep-space-in-cryogenic-sleep-could-ac-1725605323?utm_source=taboola\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our bodies aren\u2019t meant for space. We require too much maintenance to speed through the stars. We need a steady supply of things absent from space \u2014 namely water, food and oxygen. We crave warmth but won\u2019t find it in deep space, where the average temperature is \u2212455 degrees Fahrenheit. Even if we could survive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464","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=18464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63922,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464\/revisions\/63922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}