{"id":11824,"date":"2014-07-14T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T23:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11824"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:17","slug":"space-giants-join-forces-to-battle-spacex-this-is-how-cheap-space-travel-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/space-giants-join-forces-to-battle-spacex-this-is-how-cheap-space-travel-begins","title":{"rendered":"Space giants join forces to battle SpaceX: This is how cheap space travel begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"by vcard\">By <a title=\"Posts by Sebastian Anthony\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/author\/santhony\" rel=\"author\">Sebastian Anthony<\/a><\/span> \u2014 ExtremeTech<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span id=\"intelliTXT\">Two of Europe\u2019s largest companies, Airbus and Safran, are joining forces to fight SpaceX\u2019s attempts to steal away their majority share of the lucrative commercial space launch business. This is one of the first times that one of the larger, entrenched, government-backed aerospace consortia has deigned to raise a quizzical eyebrow in acknowledgement at the presence of SpaceX \u2014 but it certainly won\u2019t be the last. SpaceX, after a series of cheap, successful space launches, is now starting to make <em>waves<\/em>: After decades of expensive, monopolistic control of space travel, companies like Boeing, Lockheed, and Airbus are finally going to have to slash their costs to stay competitive. This is how the era of cheap space travel begins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/184434-space-giants-join-forces-to-battle-spacex-this-is-how-cheap-space-travel-begins\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sebastian Anthony \u2014 ExtremeTech Two of Europe\u2019s largest companies, Airbus and Safran, are joining forces to fight SpaceX\u2019s attempts to steal away their majority share of the lucrative commercial space launch business. This is one of the first times that one of the larger, entrenched, government-backed aerospace consortia has deigned to raise a quizzical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64941,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions\/64941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}