{"id":29498,"date":"2016-08-30T05:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T12:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hibernating-astronauts-may-be-key-to-mars-colonization"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:19:41","slug":"hibernating-astronauts-may-be-key-to-mars-colonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hibernating-astronauts-may-be-key-to-mars-colonization","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hibernating\u2019 Astronauts May Be Key to Mars Colonization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hibernating-astronauts-may-be-key-to-mars-colonization.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colonizing Mars may require humanity to tap into its inner bear.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are working on ways to induce a hibernation-like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/22520-incredible-technology-mars-astronauts-suspended-animation.html\">torpor state in astronauts<\/a> \u2014 a breakthrough they say would slash costs and make the long journey to the Red Planet safer and far less taxing for crewmembers.<\/p>\n<p>Such benefits could help lay the foundation for the first footsteps on Mars, and they\u2019re essential to the establishment of a long-term human outpost there, project team members said. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/23762-manned-mars-mission-ideas.html\">Red Planet or Bust: 5 Crewed Mars Mission Ideas<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33894-mars-colonization-hibernating-astronauts-torpor.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/33894-mars-colonization-hibernating-astronauts-torpor.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonizing Mars may require humanity to tap into its inner bear. Researchers are working on ways to induce a hibernation-like torpor state in astronauts \u2014 a breakthrough they say would slash costs and make the long journey to the Red Planet safer and far less taxing for crewmembers. Such benefits could help lay the foundation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29498","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66394,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29498\/revisions\/66394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}