{"424661":{"#nid":"424661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE alumnus John Bradford talks Mars","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor AE alumnus John Bradford\u0026nbsp; Mars is the limit. For now, anyway.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe president of Atlanta-based\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.spaceworksengineering.com\/\u0022\u003ESpaceWorks Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ecame to Georgia Tech on Feb. 20 to deliver a talk, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/John%20Bradford%20Torpor-induced.pdf\u0022\u003ETorpor-inducing Transfer Habitat for Human Stasis to Mars\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 before a packed crowd. He spent almost as much time talking with students about their career paths as he did giving his talk, which challenged listeners to imagine (and develop) the engineering that it will take to bring a human payload to Mars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe challenge, he said, is to place the crew in an inactive, low-metabolic torpor state for mission transfer phases by leveraging evolving medical advances in therapeutic hypothermia and total parenteral nutrition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The president of Atlanta-based SpaceWorks Engineering came to Georgia Tech on Feb. 20 to deliver a talk, \u0022Torpor-inducing Transfer Habitat for Human Stasis to Mars\u0022 before a packed crowd."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-14 15:17:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:04","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"134681","name":"John Bradford"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}