{"id":82480,"date":"2018-09-10T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/nasas-new-vasimr-plasma-engine-could-reach-mars-in-less-than-6-weeks"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:22:23","slug":"nasas-new-vasimr-plasma-engine-could-reach-mars-in-less-than-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/nasas-new-vasimr-plasma-engine-could-reach-mars-in-less-than-6-weeks","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s New Vasimr Plasma Engine Could Reach Mars In Less Than 6 Weeks"},"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\/TiZuG9K_xso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA recently delivered $10 million in funding to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for further development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster proficient of propelling a spaceship to Mars in just 39 days. NASA\u2019s funding was part of the \u201c12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescinewsreporter.com\/2018\/07\/nasas-new-vasimr-plasma-engine-could.html\">http:\/\/www.thescinewsreporter.com\/2018\/07\/nasas-new-vasimr-p...could.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA recently delivered $10 million in funding to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for further development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster proficient of propelling a spaceship to Mars in just 39 days. NASA\u2019s funding was part of the \u201c12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82480","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}