{"id":19858,"date":"2015-12-08T03:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T11:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/new-us-space-mining-law-to-spark-interplanetary-gold-rush"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:09","slug":"new-us-space-mining-law-to-spark-interplanetary-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/new-us-space-mining-law-to-spark-interplanetary-gold-rush","title":{"rendered":"New US space mining law to spark interplanetary gold rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-us-space-mining-law-to-spark-interplanetary-gold-rush.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flashing some interplanetary gold bling and sipping \u201cspace water\u201d might sound far-fetched, but both could soon be reality, thanks to a new US law that legalizes cosmic mining.<\/p>\n<p>In a first, President Barack Obama signed legislation at the end of November that allows commercial extraction of minerals and other materials, including water, from asteroids and the moon.<\/p>\n<p>That could kick off an extraterrestrial gold rush, backed by a private aeronautics industry that is growing quickly and cutting the price of <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/commercial+space+flight\/\" rel=\"tag\">commercial space flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-12-space-law-interplanetary-gold.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashing some interplanetary gold bling and sipping \u201cspace water\u201d might sound far-fetched, but both could soon be reality, thanks to a new US law that legalizes cosmic mining. In a first, President Barack Obama signed legislation at the end of November that allows commercial extraction of minerals and other materials, including water, from asteroids and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19858","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69058,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19858\/revisions\/69058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}