{"id":192836,"date":"2024-07-12T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/nasa-thinks-this-radical-mars-rocket-could-revolutionize-space-travel"},"modified":"2024-07-12T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:24:05","slug":"nasa-thinks-this-radical-mars-rocket-could-revolutionize-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/nasa-thinks-this-radical-mars-rocket-could-revolutionize-space-travel","title":{"rendered":"NASA Thinks This Radical Mars Rocket Could Revolutionize Space Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-thinks-this-radical-mars-rocket-could-revolutionize-space-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has invested $725,000 in a new rocket system that could solve one of the major obstacles standing in our way of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-havent-we-been-to-mars-yet-2024-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sending humans to Mars<\/a>: travel time.<\/p>\n<p>With current technology, a round-trip to the red planet would take almost two years. For astronauts, spending that much time in spaceflight comes with big health risks.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d be exposed to high levels of solar and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/high-energy-radiation-hotspot-space-puzzles-astronomers-2024-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cosmic radiation<\/a>, the harmful effects of zero-gravity, and a long period of isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has invested $725,000 in a new rocket system that could solve one of the major obstacles standing in our way of sending humans to Mars: travel time. With current technology, a round-trip to the red planet would take almost two years. For astronauts, spending that much time in spaceflight comes with big health risks. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192836","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=192836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}