{"id":90769,"date":"2019-05-15T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/ask-anything-could-you-build-a-spaceship-out-of-wood"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:43:04","slug":"ask-anything-could-you-build-a-spaceship-out-of-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/ask-anything-could-you-build-a-spaceship-out-of-wood","title":{"rendered":"Ask Anything: Could You Build A Spaceship Out Of Wood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ask-anything-could-you-build-a-spaceship-out-of-wood3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Illustrations by Jason Schneider<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of strength, wood is pretty good,\u201d says Mike Gruntman, professor of astronautics at the University of Southern California. Early airplanes were built with wood, all the way into the early 1930s. (There were also wooden submarines.) Gruntman thinks it may be possible to build a wooden spacecraft that could survive the stress of a rocket launch.<\/p>\n<p>Once your timber ship made it into space, however, you\u2019d have a lot of problems. For starters, the organic matter would contain a fair amount of water. In a vacuum, that water would leak out and evaporate, which could affect the structure\u2014especially in places where screws and brackets were attached. Even if this process unfolded over many weeks or months, the integrity of the spacecraft might be compromised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/technology\/ask-anything-could-you-build-spaceship-out-wood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrations by Jason Schneider \u201cIn terms of strength, wood is pretty good,\u201d says Mike Gruntman, professor of astronautics at the University of Southern California. Early airplanes were built with wood, all the way into the early 1930s. (There were also wooden submarines.) Gruntman thinks it may be possible to build a wooden spacecraft that could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90769","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}