{"id":226082,"date":"2025-11-28T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/why-space-the-purpose-of-people-2"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:13:49","slug":"why-space-the-purpose-of-people-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/why-space-the-purpose-of-people-2","title":{"rendered":"Why Space?: The Purpose of People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-space-the-purpose-of-people.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life Boaters! I could use a great favour from you! Please buy a copy of my new book \u201cWhy Space? The Purpose of People\u201d ASAP and leave me a good review (if you like it \u2014 if not \u2014 send me a sternly worded letter!) If you love it, buy a bunch and give them to every geek and nerd on your list.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m getting great reviews! Rod Roddenberry said I\u2019m channeling the great captains of Star Trek, Dr. Greg Autry (future NASA CFO) called me the \u201cgodfather of commercial space.\u201d Of course, you can bet those went on the cover \u2014 and now I have to buy them dinners for the rest of my life, but not too bad!<\/p>\n<p>Look, there\u2019s a lot of misinformation out there about the Real Space Revolution. I straighten some of that out \u2014 from the inside.<\/p>\n<p>But my primary goal is to give those in the \u201ccause\u201d language to explain why they are in this, and perhaps even to supply those who will go out there to open the High Frontier with the words they need to stay strong as they do.<\/p>\n<p>In the book, I chronicle how people like some of you gave me Permission to Dream about doing what I do now. Something for which I will be forever grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Help me \u2014 help you \u2014 help us. Buy the book! Read the book! Share the book!<\/p>\n<p>(The audio version comes out in a week or so)<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/why-space-the-purpose-of-people-2\">Continue reading \u201cWhy Space?: The Purpose of People\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Boaters! I could use a great favour from you! Please buy a copy of my new book \u201cWhy Space? The Purpose of People\u201d ASAP and leave me a good review (if you like it \u2014 if not \u2014 send me a sternly worded letter!) If you love it, buy a bunch and give them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226082","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\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}