{"id":22765,"date":"2016-02-25T16:46:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T00:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/congress-considers-moon-camps-and-a-space-station-hotel-for-nasas-future"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:49:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:49:17","slug":"congress-considers-moon-camps-and-a-space-station-hotel-for-nasas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/congress-considers-moon-camps-and-a-space-station-hotel-for-nasas-future","title":{"rendered":"Congress Considers Moon Camps and a Space Station Hotel for NASA\u2019s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/congress-considers-moon-camps-and-a-space-station-hotel-for-nasas-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congress held a meeting today on what NASA\u2019s overall purpose should look like under the next few presidents. But agreement on just what that purpose might be\u2014as witnesses discussed everything from the planned Mars trip to a proposal for a space station hotel\u2014seemed far away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we treated the Air Force like we do NASA, we\u2019d have no flying aircraft. We cannot decide every few years what we want the purpose of the space program to be,\u201d said former NASA administrator Mike Griffin to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Mars mission was a topic of heavy discussion. At one point, Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) waved a MARS 2033 bumpersticker over his head (whether he brought it with him to the meeting for that specific purpose, or simply has it on him at all times was unclear)\u2014only to have his colleague Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) snap that perhaps Republicans should print their own Mars 2032 bumper stickers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/congress-considers-moon-camps-and-a-space-station-hotel-1761273633\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/congress-considers-moon-camps-and-a-space...1761273633<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress held a meeting today on what NASA\u2019s overall purpose should look like under the next few presidents. But agreement on just what that purpose might be\u2014as witnesses discussed everything from the planned Mars trip to a proposal for a space station hotel\u2014seemed far away. \u201cIf we treated the Air Force like we do NASA, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765","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=22765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62664,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765\/revisions\/62664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}