{"id":13880,"date":"2015-03-30T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13880"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:00:36","slug":"space-privatization-tourism-and-morals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/space-privatization-tourism-and-morals","title":{"rendered":"Space Privatization, Tourism And Morals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">By: Leigh Cooper \u2014 Inside Science<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">Novel technologies, innovative engineering and breathtaking discoveries could be the story of the next 100 years of space exploration. But space travel involves more than math, telescopes and rovers according to the speakers at a session at last month\u2019s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Jose, California. Modern space exploration mixes together governments and private companies, science and ethics, promise and possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson, thinks that the desire to explore, which has pushed humans to cross oceans and conquer mountains, will continue to propel humans into space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what is happening now is as profound as the transition that took place among hunter gatherers when they left Africa 50 or 60 thousand years ago,\u201d said Impey. \u201cIt took an amazing short time \u2013 just a couple hundred generations \u2013 for simple tribal units of 50 or 100 to spread essentially across the Earth.\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidescience.org\/content\/space-privatization-tourism-and-morals\/2701\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Leigh Cooper \u2014 Inside Science Novel technologies, innovative engineering and breathtaking discoveries could be the story of the next 100 years of space exploration. But space travel involves more than math, telescopes and rovers according to the speakers at a session at last month\u2019s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-space","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880","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=13880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64784,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880\/revisions\/64784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}