{"id":135633,"date":"2022-02-14T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/human-spaceflight-just-got-a-boost-with-new-polaris-program"},"modified":"2022-02-14T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T19:45:09","slug":"human-spaceflight-just-got-a-boost-with-new-polaris-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/human-spaceflight-just-got-a-boost-with-new-polaris-program","title":{"rendered":"Human spaceflight just got a boost with new Polaris Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-spaceflight-just-got-a-boost-with-new-polaris-program3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the moon, Mars, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Human spaceflight just got a major boost.<\/p>\n<p>Polaris announced on February 14, 2022, that its first-of-its-kind <a href=\"https:\/\/polarisprogram.com\/\">Polaris Program<\/a> is set to focus exclusively on rapidly advancing human spaceflight capabilities all while \u201ccontinuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes on Earth,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/polarisprogram\/status\/1493210924047486976?s=21\"> per the company\u2019s post on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/blue-origins-third-space-tourism-flight-takes-off\">Blue Origin\u2019s space tourism rides<\/a> to last year\u2019s celebration of humans sending the <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/spacexs-crew-3-launched-the-600th-person-to-space-in-60-years\">600th person to space in 60 years,<\/a> more and more humans are being launched up to space. So it makes sense that a laser-focused program like the Polaris Program would solely focus on pushing along human spaceflight capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>## Three missions with one goal.<\/p>\n<p>Polaris already has three missions planned \u2014 a triple combination that perfectly reflects the three-starred constellation the company is named after \u2014 which will involve developing and using new technologies, extensive research, and the first SpaceX Starship flight with humans on board.<\/p>\n<p>Fulll Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/polaris\">https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/polaris<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/human-spaceflight-just-got-a-boost-with-new-polaris-program\">Continue reading \u201cHuman spaceflight just got a boost with new Polaris Program\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the moon, Mars, and beyond. Human spaceflight just got a major boost. Polaris announced on February 14, 2022, that its first-of-its-kind Polaris Program is set to focus exclusively on rapidly advancing human spaceflight capabilities all while \u201ccontinuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes on Earth,\u201d per the company\u2019s post on Twitter. From [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135633","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=135633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}