{"id":32539,"date":"2016-12-10T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T02:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/nasa-and-stephen-hawking-are-working-on-a-nano-starship-that-can-travel-15th-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:59:14","slug":"nasa-and-stephen-hawking-are-working-on-a-nano-starship-that-can-travel-15th-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/nasa-and-stephen-hawking-are-working-on-a-nano-starship-that-can-travel-15th-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"NASA and Stephen Hawking are working on a nano-starship that can travel 1\/5th the speed of light"},"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\/xRFXV4Z6x8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/independent.co.uk\/topic\/nasa\">NASA<\/a> researchers have joined forces with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/stephen-hawking\">Stephen Hawking<\/a> to build a nano-starship that can travel one-fifth the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the ship, called \u201cStarChip\u201d could reach Earth\u2019s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/european-space-agency-mars-lander-esa-schiaparelli-why-explained-red-planet-a7437336.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-and-stephen-hawking-are-working-on-a-nano-starship-that-can-travel-15th-the-speed-of-light2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/nasa-nano-starship-speed-of-light-stephen-hawking-breakthrough-starchip-space-a7467732.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/nasa-nano-starship...67732.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA researchers have joined forces with Stephen Hawking to build a nano-starship that can travel one-fifth the speed of light. If successful, the ship, called \u201cStarChip\u201d could reach Earth\u2019s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, in 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32539","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=32539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59511,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32539\/revisions\/59511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}