{"id":13533,"date":"2015-02-23T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13533"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:21","slug":"might-a-gold-rush-on-the-moon-trigger-the-next-epic-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/might-a-gold-rush-on-the-moon-trigger-the-next-epic-space-race","title":{"rendered":"Might a \u2018Gold Rush\u2019 on the Moon Trigger the Next Epic Space Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">As a kid, I devoured Star Trek: The Next Generation, and though it now appears nearly as campy as the original series did back then, I still love it. But Star Trek led me astray. I thought exploration for the sake of exploration would get us to the stars. Now, I\u2019m not so sure. Fifty years in, and we humans are still stuck in low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P3\">First comes a smattering of fiery idealists blazing trails and climbing peaks. The risks are high and the returns are individual fame, newly detailed maps, and a general sense of awe.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/02\/11\/lunar-gold-rush-to-trigger-epic-space-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub As a kid, I devoured Star Trek: The Next Generation, and though it now appears nearly as campy as the original series did back then, I still love it. But Star Trek led me astray. I thought exploration for the sake of exploration would get us to the stars. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46611,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions\/46611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}