{"id":30903,"date":"2016-10-09T17:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-train-into-space-startram-project-could-make-colonizing-mars-easier"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:23:23","slug":"a-train-into-space-startram-project-could-make-colonizing-mars-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-train-into-space-startram-project-could-make-colonizing-mars-easier","title":{"rendered":"A Train Into Space? Startram Project Could Make Colonizing Mars Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lJxV4kSWSUI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of talk recently about reusable rockets and asteroid mining making space travel cheaper, but a proposed idea for a maglev train into space might be the real answer.<\/p>\n<p>Using existing maglev technology, the Startram project proposes to launch people and cargo down a 1,000-mile long tunnel 12 miles high at 20,000 mph using a superconducting cable.<\/p>\n<p>The idea sounds far fetched, but it\u2019s being pitched by some really smart people. Dr. James Powell co-invented superconducting maglev trains and Dr. George Maise is an aerospace engineer; they believe the train into space is the answer that could make interplanetary travel possible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3574652\/a-train-into-space-startram-project-could-make-colonizing-mars-easier\/\">http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3574652\/a-train-into-space-startram...rs-easier\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk recently about reusable rockets and asteroid mining making space travel cheaper, but a proposed idea for a maglev train into space might be the real answer. Using existing maglev technology, the Startram project proposes to launch people and cargo down a 1,000-mile long tunnel 12 miles high at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60124,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions\/60124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}