{"id":74763,"date":"2017-12-30T23:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/report-examines-benefits-of-settling-space-using-neo-resources"},"modified":"2018-01-07T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T20:15:08","slug":"report-examines-benefits-of-settling-space-using-neo-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/report-examines-benefits-of-settling-space-using-neo-resources","title":{"rendered":"Report Examines Benefits of Settling Space Using NEO Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/report-examines-benefits-of-settling-space-using-neo-resources.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TransAstra Corporation recently completed an in-depth study of how to use resources from near Earth objects to facilitate space exploration and settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-page report, \u201cStepping Stones: Economic Analysis of Space Transportation Supplied From NEO Resources,\u201d was funded with a $100,000 grant from NASA\u2019s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Stepping Stones economic analysis of space transportation supplied from near-Earth object (NEO) resources demonstrates the potential to break the tyranny of increasing space transportation costs created by dependence on Earth-based resources, particularly propellant,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parabolicarc.com\/2017\/12\/30\/study-examines-benefits-settling-space-neo-resources\/#more-63492\">http:\/\/www.parabolicarc.com\/2017\/12\/30\/study-examines-benefi...more-63492<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TransAstra Corporation recently completed an in-depth study of how to use resources from near Earth objects to facilitate space exploration and settlement. The 82-page report, \u201cStepping Stones: Economic Analysis of Space Transportation Supplied From NEO Resources,\u201d was funded with a $100,000 grant from NASA\u2019s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. \u201cThe Stepping Stones economic analysis of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74763","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=74763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74849,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74763\/revisions\/74849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}