{"id":21494,"date":"2016-02-01T20:16:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T04:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nasas-new-space-shuttle-is-a-work-of-futuristic-art"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:01:13","slug":"nasas-new-space-shuttle-is-a-work-of-futuristic-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nasas-new-space-shuttle-is-a-work-of-futuristic-art","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s New Space Shuttle Is a Work of Futuristic Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-new-space-shuttle-is-a-work-of-futuristic-art.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lifting body vehicle will be launched on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket and will have the ability to return\u2014along with cargo\u2014by landing at any available airport. SNC\u2019s Dream Chaser is made of non-toxic materials meaning it can touch down on commercial runways and be accessed immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The chance to showcase a reusable spacecraft on government funded missions bodes well for a potential pivot to commercial use. SNC is at the leading edge of private space companies that one day might cater to a more diverse base of consumers like universities, medical companies and individuals.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Dream Chaser\u2019s history and development, we spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sncspace.com\/AboutUs\/JohnRoth\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">John Roth<\/a>, Vice President of Business Development for SNC\u2019s Space Systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/02\/nasas-new-space-shuttle-is-a-work-of-futuristic-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lifting body vehicle will be launched on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket and will have the ability to return\u2014along with cargo\u2014by landing at any available airport. SNC\u2019s Dream Chaser is made of non-toxic materials meaning it can touch down on commercial runways and be accessed immediately. The chance to showcase a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63049,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494\/revisions\/63049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}