{"id":3926284,"date":"2026-06-03T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/solar-sails-edge-closer-to-reality-but-interstellar-travel-is-another-story\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:00:05","slug":"solar-sails-edge-closer-to-reality-but-interstellar-travel-is-another-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/solar-sails-edge-closer-to-reality-but-interstellar-travel-is-another-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar sails edge closer to reality, but interstellar travel is another story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>From planetary rovers and asteroid sample return missions to the recent Artemis II flight above the far side of the moon, we are seemingly good at doing space. But our achievements still do not match many of our space dreams, science fiction or otherwise.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-solar-edge-closer-reality-interstellar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From planetary rovers and asteroid sample return missions to the recent Artemis II flight above the far side of the moon, we are seemingly good at doing space. But our achievements still do not match many of our space dreams, science fiction or otherwise. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}