--- --- # How Humans Will Get to Deep Space by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 21, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 21, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**If humans want to travel to other planets, we’ll need to learn how to hibernate.**](http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/aerospace/space-flight/putting-humans-in-stasis-is-the-best-way-of-getting-to-mars) By Evan Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum **2\.** [**Can the New York Times and Google save commenting on the Internet?**](http://www.poynter.org/2016/nyt-to-partner-with-division-of-googles-parent-company-to-expand-comments/431161/) By Benjamin Mullin at Poynter **3\.** [**To stay alive, firefighters are using the technology NASA created to keep rovers from getting lost on Mars.**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/nasa-developed-ai-could-help-save-firefighters-lives-180960398/) By Emily Matchar in Smithsonian **4\.** [**Same-day payment is a key factor for survival in the gig economy.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/more-gig-economy-workers-can-now-get-paid-on-demand) By Ellen Huet in Bloomberg Technology **5\.** [**Want to boost your pain threshold? Watch a sad movie.**](http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/sad-movies-help-us-bond-those-around-us-and-alleviate-pain) By Emily Underwood in Science Magazine  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How Humans Will Get to Deep Space ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4502720/how-humans-will-get-to-deep-space/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4502720/how-humans-will-get-to-deep-space/"},"headline":"How Humans Will Get to Deep Space","datePublished":"2016-09-21T16:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:29.232Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4502720/how-humans-will-get-to-deep-space/","keywords":["Innovation","Pain","space travel","Gig Economy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4502720/how-humans-will-get-to-deep-space/","name":"How Humans Will Get to Deep Space"}}]}] ```