{"id":95626,"date":"2019-08-31T01:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/five-companies-building-the-tools-and-tech-for-humans-to-thrive-off-planet"},"modified":"2019-08-31T01:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T08:02:26","slug":"five-companies-building-the-tools-and-tech-for-humans-to-thrive-off-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/five-companies-building-the-tools-and-tech-for-humans-to-thrive-off-planet","title":{"rendered":"Five companies building the tools and tech for humans to thrive off-planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/five-companies-building-the-tools-and-tech-for-humans-to-thrive-off-planet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most pivotal moments in human history. Stepping onto the moon, Neil Armstrong in 1969 uttered those now infamous words: \u201cThat\u2019s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next fifty years did not see space travel become routine, with many coming to believe that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/daily-planet\/think-space-exploration-isnt-moving-fast-enough-youre-not-alone-180947680\/\">NASA is just too slow<\/a>. But space-related research and innovation are enjoying a new revival, inspired by SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and other private firms that are making commercial space travel a reality. Along with rockets, hundreds of companies across the world are working feverishly toward developing infrastructure for space tourism, novel methods of growing food off-Earth, and sustainable building materials, to name only a few. All this with a tantalizing goal: to open up other planets and extraterrestrial bodies for exploration \u2014 and perhaps even residence \u2014 by everyone, not just astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>Such work has not only moved us closer to our goal of one day living and playing off-Earth, but has also benefited our lives right here, right now. Scratch-proof glass, some biopharmaceuticals, and GPS navigation all derive from space-based research. The innovation happening today is incredibly exciting, and the future possibilities are seemingly endless. Here are five companies working on technologies that can help us thrive both on- and off-Earth. <b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most pivotal moments in human history. Stepping onto the moon, Neil Armstrong in 1969 uttered those now infamous words: \u201cThat\u2019s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\u201d The next fifty years did not see space travel become routine, with many coming to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95626","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=95626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}