{"id":70538,"date":"2017-06-29T00:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T07:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/msnws-plasma-thruster-just-might-fire-up-congress-at-hearing-on-space-propulsion"},"modified":"2017-07-05T23:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T06:00:49","slug":"msnws-plasma-thruster-just-might-fire-up-congress-at-hearing-on-space-propulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/msnws-plasma-thruster-just-might-fire-up-congress-at-hearing-on-space-propulsion","title":{"rendered":"MSNW\u2019s plasma thruster just might fire up Congress at hearing on space propulsion"},"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\/pDO4uhqehK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How will we send humans to the moon, Mars and other destinations in space? The chances are good that electric propulsion will play a role, and a company called MSNW is at the cutting edge of that technology.<\/p>\n<p>The director of propulsion research for Redmond, Wash.-based MSNW, Anthony Pancotti, will take a share of Capitol Hill\u2019s spotlight on Thursday during a <a href=\"https:\/\/science.house.gov\/sites\/republicans.science.house.gov\/files\/documents\/HHRG-115-SY16-20170629-SD001.pdf\">hearing organized by the House Subcommittee on Space<\/a>. And he expects to learn as much from his encounter with lawmakers as they\u2019ll learn from him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/msnws-plasma-thruster-just-might-fire-congress-hearing-space-propulsion\/\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/msnws-plasma-thruster-just-mig...ropulsion\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will we send humans to the moon, Mars and other destinations in space? The chances are good that electric propulsion will play a role, and a company called MSNW is at the cutting edge of that technology. The director of propulsion research for Redmond, Wash.-based MSNW, Anthony Pancotti, will take a share of Capitol [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70538","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=70538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70693,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70538\/revisions\/70693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}