{"id":508,"date":"2006-07-31T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=508"},"modified":"2006-07-31T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T19:55:07","slug":"ares-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Ares & Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest Space Review<\/a> contains an article <\/a>that repeats an idea that’s been around for a long time, but has always seemed to be a bit disreputable, for what seem to me to be illogical reasons: since a large part of any deep-space mission is the equipment and fuel to get the crew back home to Earth, wouldn’t it make more sense to make the trip one-way?<\/p>\n

There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to the idea of a one-way space voyage nowadays, but I would argue that this is historically unusual. In the past, plenty of people took one-way voyages with only small chances of survival at the end. I would think that with the extra mass budget that a one-way trip allows, it would be perfectly possible to bring along enough supplies for one or two people to live out their natural lives on, say, Mars.<\/p>\n

In my young and single days I often said that I’d be the first to jump at the chance of a one-way trip to Mars. Not sure what Andrea would have to say about that nowadays…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest Space Review contains an article that repeats an idea that’s been around for a long time, but has always seemed to be a bit disreputable, for what seem to me to be illogical reasons: since a large part of any deep-space mission is the equipment and fuel to get the crew back home … Continue reading “Ares & Eve”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}