{"id":113111,"date":"2020-09-16T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-iss-is-about-to-get-its-first-commercial-airlock"},"modified":"2020-09-16T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:24:02","slug":"the-iss-is-about-to-get-its-first-commercial-airlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-iss-is-about-to-get-its-first-commercial-airlock","title":{"rendered":"The ISS Is About to Get Its First Commercial Airlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-iss-is-about-to-get-its-first-commercial-airlock.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to carry what will soon become the International Space Station\u2019s first privately-built airlock.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The company has previously built standardized boxes for space-based experiments and tiny satellite deployers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/9\/15\/21437672\/nanoracks-bishop-commercial-airlock-spacex-international-space-station-satellite-deployment\"><em>The Verge<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop is shaped like a bell jar and attaches itself to the outside of the space station using a number of clamps and latches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce it\u2019s there, it\u2019s just extra real estate until we want to use it,\u201d Mike Lewis, Nanoracks\u2019 chief innovation officer, told <em>The Verge<\/em>. \u201cWe can use it in a number of ways, the first of which is to bring things outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/iss-first-commercial-airlock?mc_cid=b0bb861907&utm_term=0_03cd0a26cd-b0bb861907-250545136&utm_medium=email&mc_eid=b7f2e844af&utm_source=The\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/iss-first-commercial-airlock?m...source=The<\/a> Future Is&utm_campaign=b0bb861907-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_16_06_26 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to carry what will soon become the International Space Station\u2019s first privately-built airlock. The company has previously built standardized boxes for space-based experiments and tiny satellite deployers, The Verge reports. The Bishop is shaped like a bell jar and attaches itself to the outside of the space station [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113111","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}