{"id":166857,"date":"2023-07-04T01:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/nasa-awards-space-act-agreement-contract-for-commercial-astronaut-jetpack"},"modified":"2023-07-04T01:26:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:26:46","slug":"nasa-awards-space-act-agreement-contract-for-commercial-astronaut-jetpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/nasa-awards-space-act-agreement-contract-for-commercial-astronaut-jetpack","title":{"rendered":"NASA awards Space Act Agreement contract for commercial astronaut jetpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-awards-space-act-agreement-contract-for-commercial-astronaut-jetpack2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US space agency continues to look toward the private sector as it plans for life beyond the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>NASA has awarded a Space Act Agreement contract to Special Aerospace Services (SAS) to develop a commercial version of its Autonomous Maneuvering Unit (AMU) astronaut jetpack.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the US space agency looks ahead to a future without the International Space Station (ISS), in which private companies will build and lift a series of commercial space stations to low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US space agency continues to look toward the private sector as it plans for life beyond the International Space Station. NASA has awarded a Space Act Agreement contract to Special Aerospace Services (SAS) to develop a commercial version of its Autonomous Maneuvering Unit (AMU) astronaut jetpack. The move comes as the US space agency [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166857","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=166857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}