{"id":72331,"date":"2017-09-04T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/how-humans-will-finally-reach-interstellar-space"},"modified":"2017-09-04T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:41:51","slug":"how-humans-will-finally-reach-interstellar-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/how-humans-will-finally-reach-interstellar-space","title":{"rendered":"How Humans Will Finally Reach Interstellar Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-humans-will-finally-reach-interstellar-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class='server-side-image' src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-humans-will-finally-reach-interstellar-space2.jpg\"\/> Four decades ago, Voyager 1 and 2 began their journey to the stars. When will humans follow them?<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note: This is a companion piece to the science fiction short \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/599wbx\/dark-was-the-night-and-cold-the-ground\">Dark was the night, and cold the ground<\/a>,\u201d published Thursday in Terraform.<\/p>\n<p>As the summer of 1977 drew to a close, twin siblings bid farewell to Earth to explore the ultimate frontier. They wrote back often, and sent lots of beautiful postcards, so that everyone at home could keep up with their adventures. Each of them carried an identical golden time capsule, filled with the sights and sounds of the world they left behind, so they could act as ambassadors to any other lifeforms they might encounter on their endless journey.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/nee4nm\/how-humans-will-finally-reach-interstellar-space\">https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/nee4nm\/how-humans...llar-space<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four decades ago, Voyager 1 and 2 began their journey to the stars. When will humans follow them? Editor\u2019s note: This is a companion piece to the science fiction short \u201cDark was the night, and cold the ground,\u201d published Thursday in Terraform. As the summer of 1977 drew to a close, twin siblings bid farewell [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72331","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72333,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72331\/revisions\/72333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}