{"id":71678,"date":"2017-08-04T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration-has-awarded-bwxt-nuclear-energy-a-18-8-million-contract-to-initiate-conceptual-designs-for-a-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-reactor-in-support-of-a-possi"},"modified":"2017-08-04T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:23:27","slug":"the-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration-has-awarded-bwxt-nuclear-energy-a-18-8-million-contract-to-initiate-conceptual-designs-for-a-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-reactor-in-support-of-a-possi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration-has-awarded-bwxt-nuclear-energy-a-18-8-million-contract-to-initiate-conceptual-designs-for-a-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-reactor-in-support-of-a-possi","title":{"rendered":"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded BWXT Nuclear Energy a $18.8 million contract to initiate conceptual designs for a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor in support of a possible future manned mission to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration-has-awarded-bwxt-nuclear-energy-a-18-8-million-contract-to-initiate-conceptual-designs-for-a-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-reactor-in-support-of-a-possi2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BWXT Nuclear Energy is a subsidiary of nuclear components, fuel and services provider BWX Technologies, which is based in Lynchburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-nuclear-news.org\/ON-NASA-boosts-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-with-BWXT-contract-04081701.html\">http:\/\/www.world-nuclear-news.org\/ON-NASA-boosts-nuclear-the\u202681701.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorldNuclearNews\/photos\/a.85942094028.81495.53295319028\/10155490326739029\/?type=3&theater\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorldNuclearNews\/photos\/a.859420940...=3&theater<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BWXT Nuclear Energy is a subsidiary of nuclear components, fuel and services provider BWX Technologies, which is based in Lynchburg, Virginia. http:\/\/www.world-nuclear-news.org\/ON-NASA-boosts-nuclear-the\u202681701.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71678","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=71678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}