{"id":108281,"date":"2020-06-06T18:45:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/spacex-opens-era-of-amateur-astronauts-cosmic-movie-sets"},"modified":"2020-06-06T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T01:45:55","slug":"spacex-opens-era-of-amateur-astronauts-cosmic-movie-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/spacex-opens-era-of-amateur-astronauts-cosmic-movie-sets","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX opens era of amateur astronauts, cosmic movie sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-opens-era-of-amateur-astronauts-cosmic-movie-sets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amateur astronauts, private space stations, flying factories, out-of-this-world movie sets \u2014 this is the future the space agency is striving to shape as it eases out of low-Earth orbit and aims for the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t quite reach the fantasized heights of George Jetson and Iron Man, but still promises plenty of thrills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still waiting for my personal jetpack. But the future is incredibly exciting,\u201d NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren said the day before SpaceX\u2019s historic liftoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amateur astronauts, private space stations, flying factories, out-of-this-world movie sets \u2014 this is the future the space agency is striving to shape as it eases out of low-Earth orbit and aims for the moon and Mars. It doesn\u2019t quite reach the fantasized heights of George Jetson and Iron Man, but still promises plenty of thrills. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}