{"id":75885,"date":"2018-02-11T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/space-exploration-should-be-an-initiative-of-nations-not-just-some-rich-guy"},"modified":"2018-02-11T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:02:45","slug":"space-exploration-should-be-an-initiative-of-nations-not-just-some-rich-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/space-exploration-should-be-an-initiative-of-nations-not-just-some-rich-guy","title":{"rendered":"Space exploration should be an initiative of nations, not just some rich guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-exploration-should-be-an-initiative-of-nations-not-just-some-rich-guy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s because Robert Lepage is touring The Far Side of the Moon to the Adelaide Festival. Or that a new Star Trek is on TV. Or maybe it\u2019s because I feel like the only person alive who really \u2013 really \u2013 liked Luc Besson\u2019s Valerian, but space, fantasies of the final frontier, and the real voyages that human beings may yet dare to make into it are very much on my mind. This week saw a number of news items concerning our tentative outreach to the stars that, for all their frustrating revelations, might yet prick the aspiration for space missions back into the popular policy consciousness\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEN1Q-skfmm0_JZ5y43Q8lTcqFggEKg4IACoGCAowl6p7MN-zCTC9vBU\">https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEN1Q-skfmm0_JZ5y43...N-zCTC9vBU<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it\u2019s because Robert Lepage is touring The Far Side of the Moon to the Adelaide Festival. Or that a new Star Trek is on TV. Or maybe it\u2019s because I feel like the only person alive who really \u2013 really \u2013 liked Luc Besson\u2019s Valerian, but space, fantasies of the final frontier, and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,31,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-policy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75885","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}