{"id":93429,"date":"2019-07-11T00:09:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T07:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/experts-cite-benefits-challenges-of-further-space-exploration"},"modified":"2019-07-11T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T07:21:04","slug":"experts-cite-benefits-challenges-of-further-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/experts-cite-benefits-challenges-of-further-space-exploration","title":{"rendered":"Experts cite benefits, challenges of further space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experts-cite-benefits-challenges-of-further-space-exploration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The United States has the advanced technology and capable workforce it needs for further space exploration. However, it lacks the focus and prioritization that assured the success of the Apollo program, Apollo flight director Gene Kranz told Senators July 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an administration that is strongly supportive of space and willing to provide the resources,\u201d Kranz said July 9 at a Senate Commerce science and transportation subcommittee hearing. \u201cWe have an agency charted to do the mission, top level leadership in place and a very capable workforce. But each of the segments are philosophically divided on the goal.\u201d Without greater unity, the U.S. space exploration program \u201cwill be grounded,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kranz was one of the NASA veterans and industry leaders who discussed the Apollo program and the benefits and challenges of future missions at the hearing, \u201cNASA Exploration Plans: Where We\u2019ve Been and Where We\u2019re Going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The United States has the advanced technology and capable workforce it needs for further space exploration. However, it lacks the focus and prioritization that assured the success of the Apollo program, Apollo flight director Gene Kranz told Senators July 9. \u201cWe have an administration that is strongly supportive of space and willing [\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-93429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93429","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=93429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93430,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93429\/revisions\/93430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}