{"id":81818,"date":"2018-08-18T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/lockheed-martin-gives-first-look-into-where-astronauts-may-live-on-missions-to-deep-space"},"modified":"2018-08-18T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T19:02:22","slug":"lockheed-martin-gives-first-look-into-where-astronauts-may-live-on-missions-to-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/lockheed-martin-gives-first-look-into-where-astronauts-may-live-on-missions-to-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin gives first look into where astronauts may live on missions to deep space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martin-gives-first-look-into-where-astronauts-may-live-on-missions-to-deep-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A massive cylindrical habitat may one day house up to four astronauts as they make the trek to deep space.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin gave a first look at what one of these habitats might look like Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center, where the aerospace giant is under contract with NASA to build a prototype of the living quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed is one of six contractors\u2014the others are Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corp.\u2018s Space Systems, Orbital ATK, NanoRacks and Bigelow Aerospace\u2014that NASA awarded a combined $65 million to build a habitat prototype by the end of the year. The agency will then review the proposals to reach a better understanding of the systems and interfaces that need to be in place to facilitate living in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/deep+space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">deep space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-lockheed-martin-astronauts-missions-deep.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-lockheed-martin-astronauts-missions-deep.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive cylindrical habitat may one day house up to four astronauts as they make the trek to deep space. Lockheed Martin gave a first look at what one of these habitats might look like Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center, where the aerospace giant is under contract with NASA to build a prototype of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81818","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}