{"id":191801,"date":"2024-06-25T20:25:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T01:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/could-we-launch-resources-from-the-moon-with-electromagnetic-railguns"},"modified":"2024-06-25T20:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T01:25:34","slug":"could-we-launch-resources-from-the-moon-with-electromagnetic-railguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/could-we-launch-resources-from-the-moon-with-electromagnetic-railguns","title":{"rendered":"Could we launch resources from the moon with electromagnetic railguns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-we-launch-resources-from-the-moon-with-electromagnetic-railguns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That was five decades ago. Catapult yourself to today and ask this question: What\u2019s the U.S. Navy\u2019s Gerald R. Ford nuclear aircraft carrier got to do with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html\">the moon<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems filed a final report to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research\u2019s (AFOSR). That report was titled \u201cLunar Electromagnetic Launch for Resource Exploitation to Enhance National Security and Economic Growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author of that appraisal is Robert Peterkin, director of operations for the organization\u2019s Albuquerque, New Mexico office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was five decades ago. Catapult yourself to today and ask this question: What\u2019s the U.S. Navy\u2019s Gerald R. Ford nuclear aircraft carrier got to do with the moon? Late last year, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems filed a final report to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research\u2019s (AFOSR). That report was titled \u201cLunar Electromagnetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191801","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=191801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}