{"id":170145,"date":"2023-08-21T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/texas-university-launches-new-200-million-space-institute-next-to-johnson-space-center"},"modified":"2023-08-21T13:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:22:51","slug":"texas-university-launches-new-200-million-space-institute-next-to-johnson-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/texas-university-launches-new-200-million-space-institute-next-to-johnson-space-center","title":{"rendered":"Texas university launches new $200 million space institute next to Johnson Space Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/texas-university-launches-new-200-million-space-institute-next-to-johnson-space-center.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M University\u2019s board of regents voted to approve the construction of a new institute in Houston that hopes to contribute to maintaining the state\u2019s leadership within the aerospace sector.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M<\/a> Space Institute<\/strong> got the greenlight for its $200 million plan. The announcement follows a $350 million investment from the Texas Legislature. The institute is planned to be constructed next to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Texas A&amp;M Space Institute will make sure the state expands its role as a leader in the new space economy,\u201d John Sharp, chancellor of the Texas A&amp;M System, says in a news release. \u201cNo university is better equipped for aeronautics and space projects than Texas A&amp;M.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas A&amp;M University\u2019s board of regents voted to approve the construction of a new institute in Houston that hopes to contribute to maintaining the state\u2019s leadership within the aerospace sector. This week, the Texas A&amp;M Space Institute got the greenlight for its $200 million plan. The announcement follows a $350 million investment from the Texas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170145","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}