{"id":129652,"date":"2021-10-28T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T05:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/can-blue-origin-help-replace-the-international-space-station"},"modified":"2021-10-28T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T05:23:07","slug":"can-blue-origin-help-replace-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/can-blue-origin-help-replace-the-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Can Blue Origin help replace the International Space Station?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So would the private station be a viable replacement for the ISS? The ageing station, which is a partnership between the US, Russia and other nations, is only funded until 2,024 with a 2028 extension looking probable, but it cannot last forever.<\/p>\n

Blue Origin says its space station will be fully operational in the late 2020s, but deadline slippage is common when it comes to huge space-related projects like this one. \u201cThey can dream of being fully operational in the late 2020s, but in the space sector they often aim for aspirational targets and if they miss it by a year or two or three then they at least have something they\u2019re aiming for until then,\u201d says space analyst Laura Forczyk. \u201cIt\u2019s almost inevitable that things take longer and are more expensive than planned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Blue Origin, the space-flight firm owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is planning to build a space station \u2013 with the hopes that it could replace the International Space Station (ISS), which is reaching the end of its life.<\/p>\n

The Orbital Reef space station, which Blue Origin is developing in partnership with other space firms including Sierra Space and Boeing, is intended to be a multipurpose destination in orbit, where different companies and governments could pay to send their own astronauts and experiments, and space tourists<\/a> could visit, says the firm. The station is proposed to be slightly smaller than the ISS, with capacity to house 10 astronauts \u2013 the ISS generally carries seven crew members, but it has had as many as 13 at a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will expand access, lower the cost, and provide all the services and amenities needed to normalize space flight,\u201d said Blue Origin\u2019s Brent Sherwood in a statement<\/a>. \u201cA vibrant business ecosystem will grow in low Earth orbit, generating new discoveries, new products, new entertainments, and global awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So would the private station be a viable replacement for the ISS? The ageing station, which is a partnership between the US, Russia and other nations, is only funded until 2,024 with a 2028 extension looking probable, but it cannot last forever. Blue Origin says its space station will be fully operational in the late [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129652","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=129652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}