{"id":128893,"date":"2021-10-12T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/who-wants-to-be-an-astronaut"},"modified":"2021-10-12T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:23:32","slug":"who-wants-to-be-an-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/who-wants-to-be-an-astronaut","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants To Be An Astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Axiom Space, a venture-backed unicorn building the next generation International Space Station, is teaming up with Discovery Channel to give away a trip to the space station onboard SpaceX to the winner of a series of rigorous challenges meant to simulate astronaut training. The series is expected to air in 2022 and for those wanting to go up, casting is underway at <a href=\"http:\/\/discovery.com\/astronaut\">discovery.com\/astronaut<\/a>. What this means is that the commercialization of space is happening in a very real way. No longer the realm of science fiction, private startups are joining forces with Fortune 500 companies to build industrial complexes in low Earth orbit for a multitude of commercial purposes including research, development, manufacturing, climate sensing, and even hospitality, with space hotels being planned to serve as WeWorks for those seeking off-planet retreats and remote work offices. you ever gazed up at the stars and wondered what it would feel like to be looking back down at Earth? Are you a space enthusiast who would give anything to travel to space, but never thought you\u2019d have an opportunity? Welcome to WHO WANTS TO BE AN ASTRONAUT \u2014 the ultimate chance of a lifetime. Compete for a seat on a flight to the International Space Station where the winner will be able to do something only a handful of humans have ever done\u2026travel into space.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not looking for rocket scientists \u2014 this is an opportunity for regular people to have the chance to travel to space and share that journey with the world. (Ok, ok, if you\u2019re a rocket scientist you\u2019re welcome to apply too!) <\/p>\n<p>If this sounds like a mission you want to be part of, now is your chance. Fill out the application below and submit a short video (30\u221260 seconds) telling us about yourself, why you deserve a chance to travel to space, what it would mean to you, and why you want to participate. We can\u2019t wait to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axiom Space, a venture-backed unicorn building the next generation International Space Station, is teaming up with Discovery Channel to give away a trip to the space station onboard SpaceX to the winner of a series of rigorous challenges meant to simulate astronaut training. The series is expected to air in 2022 and for those wanting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128893","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}