{"id":117499,"date":"2020-12-21T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/dedicated-commercial-human-in-space-operations-are-coming-sooner-than-you-may-realize"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:22:15","slug":"dedicated-commercial-human-in-space-operations-are-coming-sooner-than-you-may-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/dedicated-commercial-human-in-space-operations-are-coming-sooner-than-you-may-realize","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated commercial human in-space operations are coming sooner than you may realize"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you\u2019ve ever heard someone refer to the idea of \u201cworking in space,\u201d you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking they were describing a science-fiction plot. But the number of humans actively working beyond Earth\u2019s atmosphere \u2014 and living significant chunks of their lives there, too \u2014 is about to start growing at a potentially exponential rate. Given how small that population is now, the growth might look slow at first \u2014 but it\u2019s happening soon, and plans are in place to help it start ramping up quickly.<\/p>\n

The main company leading those plans in the near-term is Axiom Space,<\/a> a private space station service provider, and eventual operator. Axiom is founded and led by people with International Space Station experience and expertise, and the company already operates R&D missions on behalf of private clients on the ISS with the help of NASA<\/a> astronauts. It\u2019s planning to begin shuttling entire flights of private astronauts to the station starting in 2021, and it\u2019s also building a new, commercial space station to ultimately replace the ISS on orbit once that one is decommissioned.<\/p>\n

Axiom Space\u2019s Chief Business Office Amir Blachman joined us at TC Sessions: Space last week on a panel that included NASA Chief of Exploration and Mission Planning Nujoud Merancy, Sierra Nevada Corporation senior vice president and former astronaut Janet Kavandi, as well as Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+) co-founder Melodie Yashar. The panel was focused on how public and private entities are preparing for a (relatively near) future in which humans spend more time off Earth \u2014 and further away from it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve ever heard someone refer to the idea of \u201cworking in space,\u201d you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking they were describing a science-fiction plot. But the number of humans actively working beyond Earth\u2019s atmosphere \u2014 and living significant chunks of their lives there, too \u2014 is about to start growing at a potentially exponential rate. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117499","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=117499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}