{"id":89067,"date":"2019-03-30T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/jeff-bezos-worlds-collide-cast-of-the-expanse-visits-blue-origins-space-turf"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:05:39","slug":"jeff-bezos-worlds-collide-cast-of-the-expanse-visits-blue-origins-space-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/jeff-bezos-worlds-collide-cast-of-the-expanse-visits-blue-origins-space-turf","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos\u2019 worlds collide: Cast of \u2018The Expanse\u2019 visits Blue Origin\u2019s space turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-worlds-collide-cast-of-the-expanse-visits-blue-origins-space-turf.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science fiction met space fact this week in the Seattle area when the cast of \u201cThe Expanse,\u201d the science-fiction jewel in Amazon\u2019s streaming-video crown, got a look at Blue Origin\u2019s spaceship.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the common denominator in the meetup: He personally engineered the sci-fi series\u2019 shift from SyFy to Prime Video, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/expanse-safe-jeff-bezos-says-amazon-will-pick-sci-fi-tv-saga-crowd-goes-wild\/\">announced it onstage at a space conference last May<\/a> while I was sitting beside him. Bezos is also the founder of Blue Origin, the space venture that is testing its New Shepard suborbital spaceship and gearing up to build its orbital-class New Glenn rocket.<\/p>\n<p>During last May\u2019s sit-down with Bezos, I joked that cast of \u201cThe Expanse\u201d might want to take a ride on New Shepard, just to get some real-life experience behind their portrayal of space travel. And Bezos played along.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2019\/jeff-bezos-expanse-blue-origin-space\/\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2019\/jeff-bezos-expanse-blue-origin-space\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction met space fact this week in the Seattle area when the cast of \u201cThe Expanse,\u201d the science-fiction jewel in Amazon\u2019s streaming-video crown, got a look at Blue Origin\u2019s spaceship. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the common denominator in the meetup: He personally engineered the sci-fi series\u2019 shift from SyFy to Prime Video, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89067","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=89067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}