{"id":25442,"date":"2016-05-06T18:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-tiny-water-powered-spacecraft-could-be-the-first-to-mine-asteroids"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:25:00","slug":"a-tiny-water-powered-spacecraft-could-be-the-first-to-mine-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-tiny-water-powered-spacecraft-could-be-the-first-to-mine-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"A Tiny, Water-Powered Spacecraft Could Be the First to Mine Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-tiny-water-powered-spacecraft-could-be-the-first-to-mine-asteroids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hydro powered spacecraft to be the first to mine an astroid.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A few months back, Luxembourg\u2014a tiny country better known for world-class pastries\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/luxembourg-wants-to-be-a-world-leader-in-asteroid-minin-1756860361#_ga=1.232308639.1031241721.1425068057\">announced its intention<\/a> to become a leader in <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-asteroid-mining-could-pay-for-our-first-space-colon-1685429089\">asteroid mining<\/a>. Now, Luxembourg has revealed the first step in its plan to fill the banking vaults with space-grade platinum: a small, water-powered spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p><a x-inset=\"hidden\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/luxembourg-wants-to-be-a-world-leader-in-asteroid-minin-1756860361\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/luxembourg-wants-to-be-a-world-leader-in-asteroid-minin-1756860361\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/luxembourg-wants-to-be-a-world-leader-in-\u20261756860361<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-tiny-water-powered-spacecraft-could-be-the-first-to-1775034226\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-tiny-water-powered-spacecraft-could-be-...1775034226<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydro powered spacecraft to be the first to mine an astroid. A few months back, Luxembourg\u2014a tiny country better known for world-class pastries\u2014 announced its intention to become a leader in asteroid mining. Now, Luxembourg has revealed the first step in its plan to fill the banking vaults with space-grade platinum: a small, water-powered spacecraft. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61884,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442\/revisions\/61884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}