{"id":27416,"date":"2016-06-30T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T20:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/inside-ulas-plan-to-have-1000-people-working-in-space-by-2045"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:29","slug":"inside-ulas-plan-to-have-1000-people-working-in-space-by-2045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/inside-ulas-plan-to-have-1000-people-working-in-space-by-2045","title":{"rendered":"Inside ULA\u2019s Plan to Have 1,000 People Working in Space by 2045"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-ulas-plan-to-have-1000-people-working-in-space-by-2045.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GOLDEN, Colorado \u2014 A major American launch provider has outlined a plan that the company says will help enable a space economy based on refueling spacecraft in Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the \u201cCislunar 1,000 Vision,\u201d the initiative foresees a self-sustaining economy that supports 1,000 people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/26499-manned-moon-exploration-future-infographic.html\">living and working in Earth-moon space<\/a> roughly 30 years from now. The concept stems from an analysis and ongoing technical work by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing Co. that provides launches aboard Atlas and Delta rockets.<\/p>\n<p>A central element of the plan involves the use of a souped-up Centaur rocket stage called ACES (Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage). This liquid oxygen\/liquid hydrogen upper stage is designed to be reusable and can be refueled, perhaps by propellant made using water extracted from Earth\u2019s moonor asteroids. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/21583-moon-base-lunar-colony-photos.html\">Moon Base Visions: How to Build a Lunar Colony (Photos)<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33297-satellite-refueling-business-proposal-ula.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=socialfbspc&cmpid=social_spc_514630\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/33297-satellite-refueling-business-prop...spc_514630<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOLDEN, Colorado \u2014 A major American launch provider has outlined a plan that the company says will help enable a space economy based on refueling spacecraft in Earth orbit. Dubbed the \u201cCislunar 1,000 Vision,\u201d the initiative foresees a self-sustaining economy that supports 1,000 people living and working in Earth-moon space roughly 30 years from now. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27416","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67055,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27416\/revisions\/67055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}