{"id":29284,"date":"2016-08-23T20:31:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T03:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/journey-to-mars-in-less-than-two-days-onboard-this-radical-train-concept"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:21:36","slug":"journey-to-mars-in-less-than-two-days-onboard-this-radical-train-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/journey-to-mars-in-less-than-two-days-onboard-this-radical-train-concept","title":{"rendered":"Journey to Mars in Less than Two Days Onboard this Radical Train Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/journey-to-mars-in-less-than-two-days-onboard-this-radical-train-concept.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for the maximum distance the train could journey, \u201cThere is no limit,\u201d Bombardier asserts. He reckons the first ship would shuttle cargo and travelers between Earth and the Moon\u2014a trip that would take roughly seven hours to complete at the ideal speed of 15 km\/s. \u201cThe Moon will serve as a launching pad for other projects, because it is easier to assemble and build this kind of train in the absence of gravity,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd Mars seems to be a good candidate for the next phase, especially if we can terraform it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though intriguing, the notion begs many questions, and likely won\u2019t be viable for eons. \u201cObviously there is a lot to consider,\u201d the designer admits. \u201cThe general purpose here is to devise a system to transport minerals, materials, and humans from one place to the other in our solar system. Solar Express is a basic idea, and we would like to know how we could improve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kristintablang\/2016\/08\/23\/solar-express-futuristic-train-travel-concept-charles-bombardier-olivier-peraldi-boris-schwarzer\/#6d1382e548c1\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kristintablang\/2016\/08\/23\/solar-...1382e548c1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As for the maximum distance the train could journey, \u201cThere is no limit,\u201d Bombardier asserts. He reckons the first ship would shuttle cargo and travelers between Earth and the Moon\u2014a trip that would take roughly seven hours to complete at the ideal speed of 15 km\/s. \u201cThe Moon will serve as a launching pad for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1507,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-environmental","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29284","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=29284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66464,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29284\/revisions\/66464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}