{"id":199625,"date":"2024-11-17T07:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/texas-am-looks-to-the-moon-mars-with-200-million-space-center"},"modified":"2024-11-17T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T13:23:31","slug":"texas-am-looks-to-the-moon-mars-with-200-million-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/texas-am-looks-to-the-moon-mars-with-200-million-space-center","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&amp;M looks to the moon, Mars with $200 million space center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/texas-am-looks-to-the-moon-mars-with-200-million-space-center2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M University made a giant leap toward bolstering its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">contributions to space exploration<\/a> on Friday, when university officials marked a groundbreaking ceremony for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/space\/article\/texas-a-m-space-institute-19906365.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">$200 million space center<\/a> in Houston. Work will begin in January on the Texas A&amp;M University Space Institute, which is designed to support efforts in aeronauts, robotics and space engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs space exploration expands, there will be a growing demand for highly skilled engineers, scientists, and professionals. Texas A&amp;M is ready,\u201d said Texas A&amp;M University System Chancellor John Sharp <a href=\"https:\/\/today.tamu.edu\/2024\/11\/15\/texas-am-celebrates-groundbreaking-of-new-space-institute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">in a statement<\/a>. \u201cWith this new facility, A&amp;M will create workforce development opportunities in space-related fields.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas A&amp;M University made a giant leap toward bolstering its contributions to space exploration on Friday, when university officials marked a groundbreaking ceremony for its $200 million space center in Houston. Work will begin in January on the Texas A&amp;M University Space Institute, which is designed to support efforts in aeronauts, robotics and space engineering. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199625","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=199625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}