{"id":35072,"date":"2017-03-05T05:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T13:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/dear-president-trump-heres-how-to-make-space-great-again"},"modified":"2017-04-25T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:37:14","slug":"dear-president-trump-heres-how-to-make-space-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/dear-president-trump-heres-how-to-make-space-great-again","title":{"rendered":"Dear President Trump: Here\u2019s How to Make Space Great Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dear-president-trump-heres-how-to-make-space-great-again.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"spsalpha\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dear-president-trump-heres-how-to-make-space-great-again.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"355\"><b>(Credit: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>By Brent Ziarnick, Peter Garretson, Everett Dolman, and Coyote Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump often says that Americans no longer dream and must do so again. Nowhere can dreams be more inspiring and profitable than in space. But today, expanding space enterprise is not foremost on the minds of Americans or military strategists. As a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2016\/11\/23\/exp-cnn-special-report-war-in-space.cnn\" target=\"blank\">CNN special<\/a> showed, defense thinkers feel embattled in space, focused on protecting our existing investments rather than developing new ones that seize strategic advantage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/heres-how-to-make-space-great-again\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/heres-how-to-make-space-great-again<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Credit: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) By Brent Ziarnick, Peter Garretson, Everett Dolman, and Coyote Smith President-elect Donald Trump often says that Americans no longer dream and must do so again. Nowhere can dreams be more inspiring and profitable than in space. But today, expanding space enterprise is not foremost on the minds of Americans or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35072","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=35072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55590,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35072\/revisions\/55590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}