{"id":12236,"date":"2014-09-05T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12236"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:12:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:12:24","slug":"what-boeings-space-taxi-could-mean-for-the-future-of-commercial-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/what-boeings-space-taxi-could-mean-for-the-future-of-commercial-space-travel","title":{"rendered":"What Boeing\u2019s space taxi could mean for the future of commercial space travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"unit-ttl\">\n<p class=\"date\"> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/reporters\/robin-burks\">Robin Burks<\/a> \u2014 TechTimes<\/p>\n<p class=\"date\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"innerwrap2\">\n<article class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"side\"><a class=\"addthis_button_facebook at300b\" title=\"Facebook\"><span class=\"fb\">N<\/span><\/a>ot only is Boeing looking to replace the space shuttle with its new Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) program, but it\u2019s also hoping that this new \u201cspace taxi\u201d will someday carry commercial passengers to space.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When NASA\u2019s space shuttle program retired in 2011, American astronauts were left with no way of transport to and from the International Space Station, except by Russian spacecraft. Considering tensions are now high between the two countries, thanks to Russia\u2019s takeover of the Crimea region of Ukraine, NASA is looking for new options.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/13955\/20140825\/what-boeings-space-taxi-could-mean-for-the-future-of-commercial-space-travel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robin Burks \u2014 TechTimes Not only is Boeing looking to replace the space shuttle with its new Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) program, but it\u2019s also hoping that this new \u201cspace taxi\u201d will someday carry commercial passengers to space. When NASA\u2019s space shuttle program retired in 2011, American astronauts were left with no way [\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-12236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236","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=12236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46895,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236\/revisions\/46895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}