{"id":95098,"date":"2019-08-22T02:22:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/new-tech-puts-nasa-one-step-closer-to-fueling-spacecraft-in-space"},"modified":"2019-08-22T02:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T09:22:38","slug":"new-tech-puts-nasa-one-step-closer-to-fueling-spacecraft-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/new-tech-puts-nasa-one-step-closer-to-fueling-spacecraft-in-space","title":{"rendered":"New Tech Puts NASA One Step Closer to Fueling Spacecraft in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-tech-puts-nasa-one-step-closer-to-fueling-spacecraft-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA just successfully demonstrated the first of three tools designed to refuel spacecraft in space, right outside of the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency\u2019s Robotic Refuelling Mission 3 was able to unstow a special adapter that can hold super-cold methane, oxygen or hydrogen, and insert it into a special coupler on a different fuel tank.<\/p>\n<p>Future iterations of the system could one day allow us to gas up spacecraft with resources from distant worlds, such as liquid methane as fuel. And that\u2019s a big deal, since future space explorations to far away destinations such as the Moon and Mars will rely on our ability to refuel after leaving Earth\u2019s gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA just successfully demonstrated the first of three tools designed to refuel spacecraft in space, right outside of the International Space Station. The space agency\u2019s Robotic Refuelling Mission 3 was able to unstow a special adapter that can hold super-cold methane, oxygen or hydrogen, and insert it into a special coupler on a different fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95098","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}