{"id":99719,"date":"2019-12-13T18:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/its-official-nasa-is-considering-an-interstellar-mission"},"modified":"2019-12-13T18:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T02:22:36","slug":"its-official-nasa-is-considering-an-interstellar-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/its-official-nasa-is-considering-an-interstellar-mission","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: NASA Is Considering an Interstellar Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-official-nasa-is-considering-an-interstellar-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It could represent \u201chumanity\u2019s first explicit step into interstellar space,\u201d as team member at the Applied Physics Laboratory Pontus Brandt told <em>Wired<\/em>, years after Voyager 1 became the <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/missions\/voyager-1\/in-depth\/\">first-ever human-built spacecraft<\/a> to reach interstellar space.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rocket Plan<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The basic outline of their proposal, which arose out of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42935-nasa-interstellar-probe-mission-idea.html\">NASA supported interstellar probe study<\/a> last year, is to launch a spacecraft that weighs less than 1,700 pounds on NASA\u2019s upcoming \u2014 but <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2019\/03\/13\/facing-fresh-sls-delays-nasa-chief-opens-door-to-launching-orion-lunar-mission-with-commercial-rockets\/\">much delayed<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42092-nasa-sls-rocket-delays-overruns-oig-report.html\">over budget<\/a> \u2014 Space Launch System rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could represent \u201chumanity\u2019s first explicit step into interstellar space,\u201d as team member at the Applied Physics Laboratory Pontus Brandt told Wired, years after Voyager 1 became the first-ever human-built spacecraft to reach interstellar space. Rocket Plan The basic outline of their proposal, which arose out of a NASA supported interstellar probe study last year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99719","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}