{"id":82048,"date":"2018-08-25T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/mars-will-be-the-longest-human-road-trip-this-space-motel-will-help-them-get-there"},"modified":"2018-08-25T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T19:02:49","slug":"mars-will-be-the-longest-human-road-trip-this-space-motel-will-help-them-get-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/mars-will-be-the-longest-human-road-trip-this-space-motel-will-help-them-get-there","title":{"rendered":"Mars will be the longest human road trip. This space \u2018motel\u2019 will help them get there"},"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\/nGhQEVa9WtA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The habitat is designed to form one module of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/nasa-s-deep-space-gateway-seen-key-bold-plan-mars-ncna838056\">NASA\u2019s proposed Deep Space Gateway<\/a>, a miniature space station that would orbit the moon and serve as a way station for lunar missions or journeys deeper into the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed\u2019s prototype is the refurbished Donatello cargo container that was originally designed to fit inside the space shuttle\u2019s cargo bay and ferry supplies to and from the ISS. Donatello never flew in space, but its two sister modules made several trips aboard the shuttle. One, dubbed Leonardo, is now a permanent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/space-station-crew-moves-closet-make-room-u-s-spaceships-n366366\">\u201cspace closet\u201d attached to the space station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed is one of six companies awarded a combined $65-million contract from NASA to design a deep-space habitat as part of the agency\u2019s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) program, which aims to foster commercial developments for space exploration.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/astronauts-could-stay-space-motel-way-mars-ncna903166\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/astronauts-could-stay-s...ncna903166<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The habitat is designed to form one module of NASA\u2019s proposed Deep Space Gateway, a miniature space station that would orbit the moon and serve as a way station for lunar missions or journeys deeper into the cosmos. Lockheed\u2019s prototype is the refurbished Donatello cargo container that was originally designed to fit inside the space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82048","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=82048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}