{"id":24585,"date":"2016-04-12T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/billionaire-pledges-100m-to-send-spaceships-to-alpha-centauri"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:31:02","slug":"billionaire-pledges-100m-to-send-spaceships-to-alpha-centauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/billionaire-pledges-100m-to-send-spaceships-to-alpha-centauri","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire pledges $100m to send spaceships to Alpha Centauri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/billionaire-pledges-100m-to-send-spaceships-to-alpha-centauri.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether or not this particular project achieves it\u2019s aims, hopefully it will encourage other obscenely wealthy philanthropists to funnel their donations into private (or governmental ) outer-space related endeavors!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Yuri Milner has backed a plan to research sending tiny, laser-powered spacecraft to the nearest star at 20 per cent of the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2084029-billionaire-pledges-100m-to-send-spaceships-to-alpha-centauri\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2084029-billionaire-ple...-centauri\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of whether or not this particular project achieves it\u2019s aims, hopefully it will encourage other obscenely wealthy philanthropists to funnel their donations into private (or governmental ) outer-space related endeavors! Yuri Milner has backed a plan to research sending tiny, laser-powered spacecraft to the nearest star at 20 per cent of the speed of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24585","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62061,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24585\/revisions\/62061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}