{"id":117308,"date":"2020-12-17T23:27:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T07:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/nasa-awards-launch-contract-to-blue-origin"},"modified":"2020-12-17T23:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T07:27:02","slug":"nasa-awards-launch-contract-to-blue-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/nasa-awards-launch-contract-to-blue-origin","title":{"rendered":"NASA Awards Launch Contract to Blue Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-awards-launch-contract-to-blue-origin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA ability to launch cargo and humans into space has become much easier private companies got involved, and now another American company has been approved by the agency to handle its space deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Jeff Bezos\u2019 company Blue Origin was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-to-blue-origin-for-new-glenn-launch-services\" target=\"_blank\">awarded a NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract<\/a>. It means Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn reusable launch service can and will be used for a range of missions, including launches for planetary, Earth observation, exploration, and scientific satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA ability to launch cargo and humans into space has become much easier private companies got involved, and now another American company has been approved by the agency to handle its space deliveries. This week, Jeff Bezos\u2019 company Blue Origin was awarded a NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract. It means Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117308","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}