{"id":32366,"date":"2016-12-03T07:46:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T15:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/japanese-heavy-hitters-invest-lightly-in-pd-aerospaces-space-tourism-effort"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:14:32","slug":"japanese-heavy-hitters-invest-lightly-in-pd-aerospaces-space-tourism-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/japanese-heavy-hitters-invest-lightly-in-pd-aerospaces-space-tourism-effort","title":{"rendered":"Japanese heavy-hitters invest lightly in PD Aerospace\u2019s space tourism effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-heavy-hitters-invest-lightly-in-pd-aerospaces-space-tourism-effort.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pdas.co.jp\/\">PD Aerospace<\/a>, a Japanese company that\u2019s similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> in its commercial spaceflight aspirations, has picked up two high-profile investors: ANA Holdings and the H.I.S. travel agency.<\/p>\n<p>In a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdas.co.jp\/documents\/Press_161201.pdf\"> joint statement<\/a> issued Thursday, the three Japanese companies said that they agreed in October to work together on space commercialization efforts, including space travel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/japan-pd-aerospace-space-tourism\/\">http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/japan-pd-aerospace-space-tourism\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PD Aerospace, a Japanese company that\u2019s similar to Virgin Galactic in its commercial spaceflight aspirations, has picked up two high-profile investors: ANA Holdings and the H.I.S. travel agency. In a joint statement issued Thursday, the three Japanese companies said that they agreed in October to work together on space commercialization efforts, including space travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366","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=32366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49517,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366\/revisions\/49517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}