{"id":127008,"date":"2021-08-31T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/amateur-astronauts-spacexs-civilian-launch-on-sept-15-is-a-mission-like-no-other"},"modified":"2021-08-31T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:22:50","slug":"amateur-astronauts-spacexs-civilian-launch-on-sept-15-is-a-mission-like-no-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/amateur-astronauts-spacexs-civilian-launch-on-sept-15-is-a-mission-like-no-other","title":{"rendered":"Amateur astronauts: SpaceX\u2019s civilian launch on Sept. 15 is a mission like no other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amateur-astronauts-spacexs-civilian-launch-on-sept-15-is-a-mission-like-no-other2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The launch next month<strong> <\/strong>of the first all-civilian mission to orbit is an ambitious test for a burgeoning space industry\u2019s futuristic dream of sending many more ordinary people to space in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>Companies and nations envision millions of people living and working in space without having to become professional, government-backed astronauts. Those hopes are riding on SpaceX\u2019s next crewed mission, called Inspiration4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch next month of the first all-civilian mission to orbit is an ambitious test for a burgeoning space industry\u2019s futuristic dream of sending many more ordinary people to space in the next few years. Why it matters: Companies and nations envision millions of people living and working in space without having to become professional, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127008","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=127008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}