{"id":77241,"date":"2018-03-29T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-alt-rocket-tech-that-may-one-day-take-humans-to-mars"},"modified":"2018-03-29T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T19:22:49","slug":"the-alt-rocket-tech-that-may-one-day-take-humans-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-alt-rocket-tech-that-may-one-day-take-humans-to-mars","title":{"rendered":"The Alt Rocket Tech That May One Day Take Humans to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GIg6pWwezEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A one-way trip to Mars with conventional chemical rockets could take up to nine months. It\u2019s a long time for humans to be in a spaceship exposed to radiation and other hazards. That\u2019s one reason NASA, space agencies, universities, and private industry are pursuing different rocket technologies. Here\u2019s a look at them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/03\/28\/the-alt-rocket-tech-that-will-one-day-take-humans-to-mars\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c2503c5bb6-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-c2503c5bb6-58264949#sm.00199u8qc1eg7f7bycr2r2r8s5gtv\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/03\/28\/the-alt-rocket-tech-th...2r2r8s5gtv<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-way trip to Mars with conventional chemical rockets could take up to nine months. It\u2019s a long time for humans to be in a spaceship exposed to radiation and other hazards. That\u2019s one reason NASA, space agencies, universities, and private industry are pursuing different rocket technologies. Here\u2019s a look at them.<\/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-77241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77241","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=77241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}