{"id":19551,"date":"2015-11-23T23:46:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T07:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/will-nasa-ever-send-astronauts-to-pluto"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:37:55","slug":"will-nasa-ever-send-astronauts-to-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/will-nasa-ever-send-astronauts-to-pluto","title":{"rendered":"Will NASA Ever Send Astronauts To Pluto?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-nasa-ever-send-astronauts-to-pluto.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With its nitrogen-dominated atmosphere and water-rich icy surface, Pluto seems much more hospitable than even the most sanguine planetary scientists would have wagered a decade ago. But could it ever play host to an Antarctic-styled research station?<\/p>\n<p>That is, as a base to routinely house researcher\/astronauts out to give humans a foothold in the outer reaches of our solar system?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notion of a Pluto base figures prominently in the anime \u2018Star Blazers\u2019 from my childhood, so it\u2019d be wonderful if there were a good reason for it,\u201d said Gerard van Belle, a research astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Az., where Clyde Tombaugh discovered the diminutive dwarf planet some 85 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2015\/11\/23\/will-nasa-ever-send-astronauts-to-pluto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its nitrogen-dominated atmosphere and water-rich icy surface, Pluto seems much more hospitable than even the most sanguine planetary scientists would have wagered a decade ago. But could it ever play host to an Antarctic-styled research station? That is, as a base to routinely house researcher\/astronauts out to give humans a foothold in the outer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51287,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551\/revisions\/51287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}