{"id":32317,"date":"2016-11-30T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/silicon-valley-startups-enter-the-space-race"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:00:35","slug":"silicon-valley-startups-enter-the-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/silicon-valley-startups-enter-the-space-race","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Startups Enter the Space Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-valley-startups-enter-the-space-race.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two options looked like going to work at NASA or going to work with a large corporation that was fulfilling space contracts with the government \u2014 a Boeing, a Lockheed or Northrup,\u201d said the partner at San Francisco-based Founders Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Then Elon Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. \u2014 SpaceX \u2014 and Nolan became its first intern in 2003. The internship turned into a full-time gig developing reusable Dragon capsules at SpaceX and working on rocket propulsion, giving Nolan \u2014 who now invests in space startups \u2014 a front-row seat for the \u201cNew Space\u201d race.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s Southern California company, which raised $1 billion early this year from Google and others at a $10 billion valuation, dramatically cut the cost of launching a space mission from $1 billion down to tens of millions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/deepspaceindustries.com\/silicon-valley-startups-enter-the-space-race\/\">http:\/\/deepspaceindustries.com\/silicon-valley-startups-enter-the-space-race\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe two options looked like going to work at NASA or going to work with a large corporation that was fulfilling space contracts with the government \u2014 a Boeing, a Lockheed or Northrup,\u201d said the partner at San Francisco-based Founders Fund. Then Elon Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. \u2014 SpaceX \u2014 and Nolan became [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32317","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=32317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65672,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32317\/revisions\/65672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}