{"id":218944,"date":"2025-07-29T04:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/nasa-tests-new-americium-based-nuclear-power-for-deep-space-missions"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:14:54","slug":"nasa-tests-new-americium-based-nuclear-power-for-deep-space-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/nasa-tests-new-americium-based-nuclear-power-for-deep-space-missions","title":{"rendered":"NASA tests new americium-based nuclear power for deep space missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.nasa-tests-new-americium-based-nuclear-power-for-deep-space-missions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is pushing the boundaries of deep space exploration with a new fuel \u2014 americium-241. This new heat source fuel could provide a reliable, long-lasting option to support long space travels in very extreme environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is pushing the boundaries of deep space exploration with a new fuel \u2014 americium-241. This new heat source fuel could provide a reliable, long-lasting option to support long space travels in very extreme environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218944","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}