{"id":237077,"date":"2026-05-13T18:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/russia-is-building-engines-for-interstellar-travel-while-nearly-two-thirds-of-rural-households-still-have-no-indoor-plumbing-and-that-gap-says-something-important-about-how-space-programs-ac"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:03:28","slug":"russia-is-building-engines-for-interstellar-travel-while-nearly-two-thirds-of-rural-households-still-have-no-indoor-plumbing-and-that-gap-says-something-important-about-how-space-programs-ac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/russia-is-building-engines-for-interstellar-travel-while-nearly-two-thirds-of-rural-households-still-have-no-indoor-plumbing-and-that-gap-says-something-important-about-how-space-programs-ac","title":{"rendered":"Russia is building engines for interstellar travel while nearly two-thirds of rural households still have no indoor plumbing \u2014 and that gap says something important about how space programs actually get funded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-is-building-engines-for-interstellar-travel-while-nearly-two-thirds-of-rural-households-still-have-no-indoor-plumbing-and-that-gap-says-something-important-about-how-space-programs-ac.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In February 2026, Rosatom announced a prototype plasma rocket engine that its scientists claim could reduce the travel time to Mars from eight months to thirty days. The engine, built at a dedicated facility in Troitsk and tested inside a fourteen-metre vacuum chamber designed to simulate deep space, uses electromagnetic fields to ionise hydrogen into [\u2026].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2026, Rosatom announced a prototype plasma rocket engine that its scientists claim could reduce the travel time to Mars from eight months to thirty days. The engine, built at a dedicated facility in Troitsk and tested inside a fourteen-metre vacuum chamber designed to simulate deep space, uses electromagnetic fields to ionise hydrogen into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237077","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}