{"id":34772,"date":"2017-02-22T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/a-nasa-funded-engineers-plan-to-colonize-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:12:11","slug":"a-nasa-funded-engineers-plan-to-colonize-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/a-nasa-funded-engineers-plan-to-colonize-mars","title":{"rendered":"A NASA-funded engineer\u2019s plan to colonize Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-nasa-funded-engineers-plan-to-colonize-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget the moon. The next giant leap for mankind could be building a habitat on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth planet from the sun may be cold \u2014 Martian winters can reach <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/allaboutmars\/facts\/#?c=theplanet&amp;s=temperature\" target=\"_blank\">-190 degrees Fahrenheit<\/a> (&minus;87 degrees Celsius) \u2014 full of deserts and lacking in oxygen, but for <a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~khoshnev\/\" target=\"_blank\">Behrokh Khoshnevis<\/a> it\u2019s humans\u2019 next destination.<\/p>\n<p>The pioneering professor in engineering at the University of Southern California has been working with NASA on the possibility of building a colony on Mars since 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/21\/tech\/nasa-3d-printing-colony-mars\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/21\/tech\/nasa-3d-printing-colony-mars\/index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the moon. The next giant leap for mankind could be building a habitat on Mars. The fourth planet from the sun may be cold \u2014 Martian winters can reach &minus;190 degrees Fahrenheit (\u221287 degrees Celsius) \u2014 full of deserts and lacking in oxygen, but for Behrokh Khoshnevis it\u2019s humans\u2019 next destination. The pioneering professor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772","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=34772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58641,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772\/revisions\/58641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}