{"id":57822,"date":"2017-06-01T03:22:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/40-technologies-nasa-is-inventing-for-its-mars-missions"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:01:31","slug":"40-technologies-nasa-is-inventing-for-its-mars-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/40-technologies-nasa-is-inventing-for-its-mars-missions","title":{"rendered":"40 Technologies NASA is Inventing for Its Mars Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/40-technologies-nasa-is-inventing-for-its-mars-missions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting astronauts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/mars\">Mars<\/a> will be far from a cakewalk. In order to safely land a crewed ship on the surface of the red planet, the agency needs to invent things that don\u2019t yet exist. And we\u2019re not talking about just one or two or five new gadgets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/nasa\">NASA<\/a> is working on a staggering <em>40<\/em> new technologies in order to meet a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/18776-nasa-thinks-it-can-send-humans-to-martian-orbit-by-2033\">2033 deadline<\/a> for launching a crew to Mars that can live on the planet for at least a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Thomas Edison was awarded thousands of patents, but the man wasn\u2019t trying to get human beings to safely land on the surface of another world sitting 33.8 million miles away, separated by a cold, eternal vacuum. Each of those 40 technologies is a hell of a lot more complex than a light bulb.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Jurczyk, the associate administrator of NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate, is the person in charge of making sure NASA\u2019s engineers stay on task and get these technologies ready on time. He seems optimistic NASA can pull off a trip to Mars, but he says the agency just needs to remain flexible while moving forward. \u201cThis is a tremendous challenge, and we absolutely can do this,\u201d he tells <em>Inverse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/32300-40-technologies-nasa-is-inventing-for-future-mars-missions?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/32300&#45;40-technologies-na...um=twitter<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting astronauts to Mars will be far from a cakewalk. In order to safely land a crewed ship on the surface of the red planet, the agency needs to invent things that don\u2019t yet exist. And we\u2019re not talking about just one or two or five new gadgets. NASA is working on a staggering 40 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57822","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=57822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57894,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57822\/revisions\/57894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}