{"id":158686,"date":"2023-02-21T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/japanese-startup-unveils-balloon-flight-space-viewing-tours"},"modified":"2023-02-21T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T00:22:20","slug":"japanese-startup-unveils-balloon-flight-space-viewing-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/japanese-startup-unveils-balloon-flight-space-viewing-tours","title":{"rendered":"Japanese startup unveils balloon flight space viewing tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-startup-unveils-balloon-flight-space-viewing-tours2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (AP) \u2014 A Japanese startup announced plans Tuesday to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes will bring an otherwise astronomically expensive experience down to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Company CEO Keisuke Iwaya said passengers do not need to be billionaires, go through intense training or have the language <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spacex-first-private-flight-2ea75b2b966a39d676c93f3633c0b4ed\" class=\"\">skills needed to fly in a rocket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s safe, economical and gentle for people,\u201d Iwaya told reporters. \u201cThe idea is to make space tourism for everyone.\u201d He said he wants to \u201cdemocratize space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (AP) \u2014 A Japanese startup announced plans Tuesday to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes will bring an otherwise astronomically expensive experience down to Earth. Company CEO Keisuke Iwaya said passengers do not need to be billionaires, go through intense training or have the language skills needed to fly in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158686","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}