{"id":71006,"date":"2017-07-19T03:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T10:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/nasa-is-working-out-how-to-create-rocket-fuel-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:53","slug":"nasa-is-working-out-how-to-create-rocket-fuel-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/nasa-is-working-out-how-to-create-rocket-fuel-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA is working out how to create rocket fuel on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-is-working-out-how-to-create-rocket-fuel-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sending humans to Mars involves deep space missions that could last months, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/elon-musk-speech-mars-plan-rocket\">shipping material there is costly<\/a>; the price of transporting 1kg on Earth increases by a factor of 100 on a Martian mission. If the ultimate goal is to establish a long-term base on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/magnetic-shield-mars-habitable\">Mars<\/a>, we\u2019ll need make use of materials found on humanity\u2019s greatest ever voyage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/nasa-rocket-fuel-mars\">http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/nasa-rocket-fuel-mars<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sending humans to Mars involves deep space missions that could last months, but shipping material there is costly; the price of transporting 1kg on Earth increases by a factor of 100 on a Martian mission. If the ultimate goal is to establish a long-term base on Mars, we\u2019ll need make use of materials found on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71006","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=71006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71128,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71006\/revisions\/71128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}