{"id":108932,"date":"2020-06-20T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nasa-gets-set-to-put-astronauts-on-blue-origin-and-virgin-galactic-suborbital-flights"},"modified":"2020-06-20T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:03:03","slug":"nasa-gets-set-to-put-astronauts-on-blue-origin-and-virgin-galactic-suborbital-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nasa-gets-set-to-put-astronauts-on-blue-origin-and-virgin-galactic-suborbital-flights","title":{"rendered":"NASA gets set to put astronauts on Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic suborbital flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fvky-qa8518?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled today that astronauts would soon be cleared to take suborbital spaceflights aboard the commercial rocket ships being tested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/tag\/virgin-galactic\/\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> and by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/tag\/blue-origin\/\">Blue Origin<\/a> space venture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA is developing the process to fly astronauts on commercial suborbital spacecraft,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBridenstine\/status\/1274024182297374721\">Bridenstine said in a tweet<\/a>. \u201cWhether it\u2019s suborbital, orbital or deep space, NASA will utilize our nation\u2019s innovative commercial capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bridenstine said the details will be laid out in a request for information to be released next week. Efforts to get further information from NASA Headquarters weren\u2019t immediately successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled today that astronauts would soon be cleared to take suborbital spaceflights aboard the commercial rocket ships being tested by Virgin Galactic and by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture. \u201cNASA is developing the process to fly astronauts on commercial suborbital spacecraft,\u201d Bridenstine said in a tweet. \u201cWhether it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108932","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=108932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}