{"id":23201,"date":"2026-05-24T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nasa-is-forging-a-nuclear-path-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:22:18","slug":"nasa-is-forging-a-nuclear-path-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nasa-is-forging-a-nuclear-path-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA is forging a nuclear path to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2028, if all goes well, NASA plans to test a new technology that could reduce trip times to the Red Planet&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/technology\/5891374-nuclear-propulsion-future-mars\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2028, if all goes well, NASA plans to test a new technology that could reduce trip times to the Red Planet&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}