{"id":135643,"date":"2022-02-14T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T01:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/billionaire-who-flew-into-orbit-last-year-funds-another-spacex-mission-this-time-even-higher-up"},"modified":"2022-02-14T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T01:22:21","slug":"billionaire-who-flew-into-orbit-last-year-funds-another-spacex-mission-this-time-even-higher-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/billionaire-who-flew-into-orbit-last-year-funds-another-spacex-mission-this-time-even-higher-up","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire who flew into orbit last year funds another SpaceX mission, this time even higher up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/billionaire-who-flew-into-orbit-last-year-funds-another-spacex-mission-this-time-even-higher-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While some of the criticism of late about billionaires going to space is valid \u2014 Virgin Galactic CEO\u2019s 10 seconds of BARELY sub orbital jaunt, and Bezo\u2019s midlife crisis flight and jacket photo-op \u2014 Musk is getting things DONE. I love the idea of billionaires funding entire missions, not for their own self gratification, but to Get. Things. Done. (with a touch of personal gratification, but it\u2019s being in SPACE, who can blame them for a small bit of joy when it comes with so much benefit to all? That\u2019s what separates Musk from his lesser peers.) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman announced Monday that he will make another private spaceflight launching from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, alongside two SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force fighter pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some of the criticism of late about billionaires going to space is valid \u2014 Virgin Galactic CEO\u2019s 10 seconds of BARELY sub orbital jaunt, and Bezo\u2019s midlife crisis flight and jacket photo-op \u2014 Musk is getting things DONE. I love the idea of billionaires funding entire missions, not for their own self gratification, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135643","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}