{"id":33473,"date":"2017-01-15T04:43:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/asteroid-prospects-facts-future-of-space-mining"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:52:24","slug":"asteroid-prospects-facts-future-of-space-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/asteroid-prospects-facts-future-of-space-mining","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Prospects: Facts &amp; Future of Space Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-prospects-facts-future-of-space-mining.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Kelsey Tollefson | Executive Editor John Lenker<\/p>\n<p>The notion of harvesting resources from extraterrestrial sources is not a new one. The lure of untold bounties\u2014orbiting just out of reach\u2014has prompted generations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20130129-asteroid-minings-peculiar-past\">poets and presidents<\/a> alike to expound upon the potential applications of space mining<i>. <\/i>These days, \u201cspace mining\u201d is no longer a mere pipe dream.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceangelsnetwork.com\/2017\/01\/11\/asteroid-prospects-the-facts-and-future-of-space-mining\/\">http:\/\/spaceangelsnetwork.com\/2017\/01\/11\/asteroid-prospects-...ce-mining\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kelsey Tollefson | Executive Editor John Lenker The notion of harvesting resources from extraterrestrial sources is not a new one. The lure of untold bounties\u2014orbiting just out of reach\u2014has prompted generations of poets and presidents alike to expound upon the potential applications of space mining. These days, \u201cspace mining\u201d is no longer a mere [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33473","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=33473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65367,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33473\/revisions\/65367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}