{"id":133766,"date":"2022-01-08T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/a-new-wave-of-space-companies-is-coming-can-it-help-life-on-earth"},"modified":"2022-01-08T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:24:38","slug":"a-new-wave-of-space-companies-is-coming-can-it-help-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/a-new-wave-of-space-companies-is-coming-can-it-help-life-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"A New Wave of Space Companies Is Coming. Can It Help Life on Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YaEDtfUZoM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re moving past the bottleneck of available space launches.<\/p>\n<p>The bottleneck nature of space launches is beginning to change.<\/p>\n<p>In the last several years, the unprecedented growth of public-private partnerships has transformed space travel into an irresistible investment opportunity. \u201cSince July last year we\u2019ve had about a dozen millionaires take selfies in space,\u201d said Tess Hatch, a partner with Bessemer Venture Partners (BvP), during a CES 2022 keynote attended by Interesting Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s more to the budding space economy than tourism, alone. In fact, despite the outsized attention focused on billionaires and millionaires going to space, the vast majority is already going to support a much wider spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>But how will that serve life down here on Earth?<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/a-new-wave-of-space-companies-is-coming-can-it-help-life-on-earth\">Continue reading \u201cA New Wave of Space Companies Is Coming. Can It Help Life on Earth?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re moving past the bottleneck of available space launches. The bottleneck nature of space launches is beginning to change. In the last several years, the unprecedented growth of public-private partnerships has transformed space travel into an irresistible investment opportunity. \u201cSince July last year we\u2019ve had about a dozen millionaires take selfies in space,\u201d said Tess [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133766","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=133766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}