{"id":75049,"date":"2018-01-09T06:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/return-to-the-moon-photo"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:02:58","slug":"return-to-the-moon-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/return-to-the-moon-photo","title":{"rendered":"Return to the MOON Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/return-to-the-moon-photo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This op-ed originally appeared in the Dec. 12, 2017 of SpaceNews magazine.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s space program has long held a special place in the public\u2019s imagination, but NASA missions are limited by budget constraints. NASA must use its funding wisely to implement balanced, cost-efficient programs to develop enabling technologies, such as technologies to power future NASA missions. Speaking as the former project manager of three successful missions \u2014 Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini \u2014 and the canceled Prometheus-Icy Moons Orbiter, I have a unique perspective to share.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4cwDJvI30Q\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/op-ed-an-argument-for-space-fission-reactors\/\">Op-ed | An argument for space fission reactors<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Op-ed | An argument for space fission reactors&#8221; &#8212; SpaceNews\" src=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/op-ed-an-argument-for-space-fission-reactors\/embed\/#?secret=ZsMisZyAoq#?secret=4cwDJvI30Q\" data-secret=\"4cwDJvI30Q\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/returntothemoon2020\/photos\/a.447333878692387.1073741826.447332838692491\/1587737477985349\/?type=3\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/returntothemoon2020\/photos\/a.447333...49\/?type=3<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This op-ed originally appeared in the Dec. 12, 2017 of SpaceNews magazine. America\u2019s space program has long held a special place in the public\u2019s imagination, but NASA missions are limited by budget constraints. NASA must use its funding wisely to implement balanced, cost-efficient programs to develop enabling technologies, such as technologies to power future NASA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75049","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=75049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75076,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75049\/revisions\/75076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}