{"id":70293,"date":"2017-06-08T00:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/first-space-nation"},"modified":"2017-06-08T00:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:42:30","slug":"first-space-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/first-space-nation","title":{"rendered":"First Space Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-space-nation.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>It might seem like an idea taken straight out of science fiction, but a \u2018space nation\u2019 could soon become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>The ambitious plans, first announced last year, were hatched by an international group of scientists and are backed by a Russian billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>The floating nation, dubbed \u2018Asgardia\u2019, is set to take its first step into space later this year with the launch of its maiden data satellite.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4579962\/Asgardia-launch-maiden-data-satellite-orbit.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4579962\/Asgar...orbit.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might seem like an idea taken straight out of science fiction, but a \u2018space nation\u2019 could soon become a reality. The ambitious plans, first announced last year, were hatched by an international group of scientists and are backed by a Russian billionaire. The floating nation, dubbed \u2018Asgardia\u2019, is set to take its first step [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70293","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}