{"id":35397,"date":"2015-02-23T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=35397"},"modified":"2015-02-17T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:20:52","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-mars-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-mars-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Does Mars need women?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/solar-system-mobile?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-35401 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/25172_view2-e1424194402579-548x414.jpg\" alt=\"Solar System Mobile | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/25172_view2-e1424194402579-548x414.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/25172_view2-e1424194402579-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the masculine mythological associations with Mars, when it comes to actually going there, it might make sense to send an all-female crew. Research dating back over 50 years suggests various reasons why women would be better suited for such long-distance voyages: they have generally stronger hearts, can better withstand vibrations and radiation exposure, and can cope better than men in prolonged isolation. But the best evidence comes from more recent terrestrial simulations of a Mars mission: women expend\u2014and therefore need\u2014far fewer calories than men. What\u2019s so out-of-this-world about that? Simple: fewer calories needed for an all-female crew would mean less food in the payload, equaling huge savings in the mission budget. We\u2019re talking a grocery budget reduction of millions of dollars. So an all-female mission to the red planet may be a hard sell, but it\u2019s really just hard science and savings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/solar-system-mobile?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Solar System Mobile, $50<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men are from Mars, women are from Venus? Think again! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":35402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}