{"id":72079,"date":"2017-08-22T22:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T05:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/forget-china-heres-why-the-next-manufacturing-boom-could-come-from-space"},"modified":"2017-08-22T22:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T05:42:38","slug":"forget-china-heres-why-the-next-manufacturing-boom-could-come-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/forget-china-heres-why-the-next-manufacturing-boom-could-come-from-space","title":{"rendered":"Forget China: Here\u2019s why the next manufacturing boom could come from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forget-china-heres-why-the-next-manufacturing-boom-could-come-from-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. \u2014 These days, it\u2019s hardly exotic to see a \u201cmade in China\u201d sticker slapped on your favorite product. But what if that sticker said \u201cmade in space?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Mountain View-based startup earlier this month revealed new breakthroughs in its quest to build in-space factories that will orbit the Earth and pump out products that are too difficult or expensive to make at home. The technology is expected to revolutionize space exploration by allowing scientists access to better tools in space, and also provide people on Earth with unique space-made products such as improved fiber optic cables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn-space manufacturing and assembling has been the stuff of science fiction and the dream of the industry for almost the entire existence of the industry,\u201d said Made in Space CEO Andrew Rush, who hosted journalists and NASA representatives at his company\u2019s headquarters for a demo. \u201cBut now, for the first time, we\u2019re making these really transformative steps toward making that a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gm5-ncwebvarnish.newscyclecloud.com\/entertainment\/20170818\/forget-china-heres-why-next-manufacturing-boom-could-come-from-space\">http:\/\/gm5-ncwebvarnish.newscyclecloud.com\/entertainment\/201...from-space<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. \u2014 These days, it\u2019s hardly exotic to see a \u201cmade in China\u201d sticker slapped on your favorite product. But what if that sticker said \u201cmade in space?\u201d A Mountain View-based startup earlier this month revealed new breakthroughs in its quest to build in-space factories that will orbit the Earth and pump out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72079","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=72079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}