{"id":34979,"date":"2017-03-01T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/forget-spacex-10-companies-that-will-change-space-travel-in-2017-2018"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:53","slug":"forget-spacex-10-companies-that-will-change-space-travel-in-2017-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/forget-spacex-10-companies-that-will-change-space-travel-in-2017-2018","title":{"rendered":"Forget SpaceX: 10 companies that will change space travel in 2017 &amp; 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J0vkqQN44I4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s announcement that they will launch two tourists on a trip around the moon has captured imaginations with renewed speculation about the future of space travel and accessibility to the beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission,\u201d Musk wrote in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/news\/2017\/02\/27\/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a>. \u201cLike the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, it really is not fair to a number of other companies that are revolutionizing space travel all the same but don\u2019t have the substantial resources or notoriety of Elon Musk\u2019s gargantuan company. Musk\u2019s celebrity status makes his every tweet a news story (not totally unlike, but in many ways extremely unlike, the newest US president). With that sort of figure, it is hard to capture people\u2019s attention if you are running one of SpaceX\u2019s \u201cpretenders\u201d and competitors. The Hawthorne, Cali company not only operates its own mission services using rockets it built itself, but also sells those rockets to other launch providers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geektime.com\/2017\/03\/01\/forget-spacex-10-companies-that-will-change-space-travel-in-2017-2018\/\">https:\/\/www.geektime.com\/2017\/03\/01\/forget-spacex-10-compani...&#45;2018\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s announcement that they will launch two tourists on a trip around the moon has captured imaginations with renewed speculation about the future of space travel and accessibility to the beyond. \u201cWe are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34979","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=34979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58540,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34979\/revisions\/58540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}