{"id":74724,"date":"2017-12-28T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/nasa-planning-mission-to-alpha-centauri-in-2069"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:09:31","slug":"nasa-planning-mission-to-alpha-centauri-in-2069","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/nasa-planning-mission-to-alpha-centauri-in-2069","title":{"rendered":"NASA Planning Mission to Alpha Centauri\u2014in 2069"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-planning-mission-to-alpha-centauri-in-20692.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is prepping for a trip to the nearby three-star Alpha Centauri system\u2014in 2069.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my kind of advanced planning.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23631576-000-exclusive-nasa-has-begun-plans-for-a-2069-interstellar-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first announced by New Scientist<\/a>, would include a 44-year-long expedition to an exoplanet in search of signs of life. Assuming NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) can figure out how to travel at a tenth of the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/science\/nasa-planning-mission-to-alpha-centauri-in-2069-1726607\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/science\/nasa-planning-mission-to-alpha-...5;1726607\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is prepping for a trip to the nearby three-star Alpha Centauri system\u2014in 2069. That\u2019s my kind of advanced planning. The mission, first announced by New Scientist, would include a 44-year-long expedition to an exoplanet in search of signs of life. Assuming NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) can figure out how to travel at a [\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-74724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74724","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=74724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74863,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74724\/revisions\/74863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}