{"id":95839,"date":"2019-09-05T12:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/former-nasa-engineer-and-virgin-galactic-instructor-says-world-needs-global-tools-like-bitcoin"},"modified":"2019-09-05T12:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:42:26","slug":"former-nasa-engineer-and-virgin-galactic-instructor-says-world-needs-global-tools-like-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/former-nasa-engineer-and-virgin-galactic-instructor-says-world-needs-global-tools-like-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Former NASA Engineer and Virgin Galactic Instructor Says World Needs Global Tools Like Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-nasa-engineer-and-virgin-galactic-instructor-says-world-needs-global-tools-like-bitcoin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former NASA engineer and Bitcoin advocate Beth Moses says she got a birds-eye view of humanity from outer space when she became the world\u2019s first woman commercial astronaut earlier this year. Part of a three-person flight team, Moses soared 55.87 miles (89.9 kilometers) into orbit as a \u201ctest passenger\u201d aboard Virgin Galactic\u2019s second spaceflight on February 22.<\/p>\n<p>An early proponent of Bitcoin, she began mining BTC after she read Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s white paper in 2013. As Virgin Galactic\u2019s chief astronaut instructor and interiors program manager, Moses believes global tools can solve critical problems.<\/p>\n<p>Says Moses, in a recent report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaeldelcastillo\/2019\/08\/31\/blockchain-apogee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NASA engineer and Bitcoin advocate Beth Moses says she got a birds-eye view of humanity from outer space when she became the world\u2019s first woman commercial astronaut earlier this year. Part of a three-person flight team, Moses soared 55.87 miles (89.9 kilometers) into orbit as a \u201ctest passenger\u201d aboard Virgin Galactic\u2019s second spaceflight on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95839","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=95839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}