{"id":678243,"date":"2021-01-14T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678243"},"modified":"2021-01-14T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:14:00","slug":"greener-polyurethanes-for-space-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678243","title":{"rendered":"Greener polyurethanes for space and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Micro-photo_of_polyurethane_fibres_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Micro-photo of polyurethane fibres\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of polyurethanes? As you read this, you\u2019re undoubtedly close to some, or maybe sitting on them: this versatile class of chemicals is used for everything from padding your couch to insulating your windows, packaging food to carpet underlay, electronics casings to skateboard wheels. They also have vital uses in space, triggering a new ESA <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/cleanspace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Clean Space<\/a> project aiming to manufacture them in a greener way.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Greener_polyurethanes_for_space_and_beyond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Greener polyurethanes for space and beyond<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of polyurethanes? As you read this, you\u2019re undoubtedly close to some, or maybe sitting on them: this versatile class of chemicals is used for everything from padding&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678244,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678243","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\/678243","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=678243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/678244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}