{"id":124950,"date":"2021-07-14T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/faa-approves-blue-origin-launch-with-bezos-others-aboard"},"modified":"2021-07-14T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:23:04","slug":"faa-approves-blue-origin-launch-with-bezos-others-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/faa-approves-blue-origin-launch-with-bezos-others-aboard","title":{"rendered":"FAA approves Blue Origin launch with Bezos, others aboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faa-approves-blue-origin-launch-with-bezos-others-aboard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has officially approved <a class=\"\" data-nid=\"440485\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/jeffrey-jeff-bezos\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" typeof=\"foaf: Image\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/thumb_100\/public\/jeffbezos_09062012.jpg?itok=s52PSsv_\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\" \/><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/jeffrey-jeff-bezos\">Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston Bezos<\/a><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/562796-faa-approves-blue-origin-launch-with-bezos-others-aboard\">FAA approves Blue Origin launch with Bezos, others aboard<\/a> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/technology\/562638-get-ready-for-the-virgin-galactic-jingle-richard-bransons-space-flight\">Richard Branson\u2019s launch changes the way we look at space<\/a> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/technology\/562560-branson-bezos-and-musk-a-new-space-race-for-a-new-generation\">Branson, Bezos and Musk: A new space race for a new generation<\/a> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/jeffrey-jeff-bezos\">MORE<\/a> \u2019s highly anticipated spaceflight next week aboard a rocket developed by his aerospace company, Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>The license, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/data_research\/commercial_space_data\/licenses\/\">was approved<\/a> by the FAA on Monday and is valid through August, comes as Bezos, along with his brother and two others, are scheduled to launch into space next Tuesday on the New Shepard rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The flight is part of an effort by billionaire-owned technology and transportation companies to make space flight a commercially available experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has officially approved Jeff Bezos Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosFAA approves Blue Origin launch with Bezos, others aboard Richard Branson\u2019s launch changes the way we look at space Branson, Bezos and Musk: A new space race for a new generation MORE \u2019s highly anticipated spaceflight next week aboard a rocket developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124950","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=124950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}