{"id":71467,"date":"2017-08-01T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/why-asteroids-loom-as-a-future-space-frontier-for-mining-and-manufacturing"},"modified":"2017-08-04T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:12:15","slug":"why-asteroids-loom-as-a-future-space-frontier-for-mining-and-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/why-asteroids-loom-as-a-future-space-frontier-for-mining-and-manufacturing","title":{"rendered":"Why asteroids loom as a future space frontier for mining and manufacturing"},"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\/gUlSGZ08t8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 55 years since <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telstar\">satellite communications<\/a> became the first commercial space frontier, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/tag\/space-tourism\/\">space tourism<\/a> is looming as the next frontier. But what comes after that? Would you believe in-space mining and manufacturing?<\/p>\n<p>Those are the opportunities that came to the fore on Saturday when members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apf.org\/\">Association of Professional Futurists<\/a> gathered at Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/asteroids-loom-commercial-space-frontier-mining-manufacturing\/\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/asteroids-loom-commercial-spac...facturing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 55 years since satellite communications became the first commercial space frontier, and space tourism is looming as the next frontier. But what comes after that? Would you believe in-space mining and manufacturing? Those are the opportunities that came to the fore on Saturday when members of the Association of Professional Futurists gathered at [\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-71467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71467","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=71467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71704,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71467\/revisions\/71704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}