{"id":220026,"date":"2025-08-13T12:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-design-huge-spacecraft-that-could-carry-2400-colonists-to-alpha-centauri"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:09:50","slug":"scientists-design-huge-spacecraft-that-could-carry-2400-colonists-to-alpha-centauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-design-huge-spacecraft-that-could-carry-2400-colonists-to-alpha-centauri","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-design-huge-spacecraft-that-could-carry-2400-colonists-to-alpha-centauri.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry up to 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/space-exploration\/proposed-spacecraft-could-carry-up-to-2-400-people-on-a-one-way-trip-to-the-nearest-star-system-alpha-centauri\">first spotted by <em>Live Science<\/em><\/a>, the ambitious vision recently won the team the top prize at the Project Hyperion Design Competition, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/researchers-spaceship-generations-humans\">launched last year<\/a> by an international consortium of scientists, engineers, and urban planners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry up to 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. As first spotted by Live Science, the ambitious vision recently won the team the top prize at the Project Hyperion Design Competition, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220026","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=220026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}