{"id":637827,"date":"2019-11-18T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=637827"},"modified":"2019-11-18T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:14:00","slug":"hibernating-astronauts-would-need-smaller-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=637827","title":{"rendered":"Hibernating astronauts would need smaller spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hibernation_pods_in_Alien_movie_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Hibernation pods in Alien movie\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If a sci-fi spaceship does not come with hyperdrive then it is usually fitted with hibernation capsules instead. In movies from <i>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/i> to <i>Event Horizon<\/i>, <i>Alien<\/i> to <i>Passengers, <\/i>fictional astronauts get put into \u2018suspended animation\u2019 to cross the vastness of space. Now ESA has investigated how real life crew hibernation would impact space mission design.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Hibernating_astronauts_would_need_smaller_spacecraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hibernating astronauts would need smaller spacecraft<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a sci-fi spaceship does not come with hyperdrive then it is usually fitted with hibernation capsules instead. In movies from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Event Horizon, Alien to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637828,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/637828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}