{"id":114343,"date":"2020-10-13T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-advances-plan-to-commercialize-international-space-station"},"modified":"2020-10-13T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T21:25:12","slug":"nasa-advances-plan-to-commercialize-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-advances-plan-to-commercialize-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"NASA advances plan to commercialize International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-advances-plan-to-commercialize-international-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The planned launch of a private commercial airlock to the International Space Station in November will accelerate NASA\u2019s plan to turn the station into a hub of private industry, space agency officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The commercialization plan also includes the launch of a private habitat and laboratory by 2024 and a project NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on Twitter in May in which actor Tom Cruise will film a movie in space.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old space station may even have a private citizen on board again for the first time in years in late 2021, according to Phil McAlister, NASA\u2019s director of commercial spaceflight. It\u2019s part of a plan to wean the space station off NASA\u2019s public funding of $3 billion to $4 billion per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planned launch of a private commercial airlock to the International Space Station in November will accelerate NASA\u2019s plan to turn the station into a hub of private industry, space agency officials said. The commercialization plan also includes the launch of a private habitat and laboratory by 2024 and a project NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114343","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=114343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}