{"id":9996,"date":"2014-01-30T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9996"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:10:00","slug":"commercial-space-travel-training-company-gets-faa-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/commercial-space-travel-training-company-gets-faa-approval","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Space Travel Training Company Gets FAA Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Miriam Kramer \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br \/> Do you want to fly on a suborbital space plane? What about a rocket launch all they way into orbit? A new commercial spaceflight training company wants to help you develop the right stuff for flying to space.<br \/> Waypoint 2 Space \u2014 a Houston-based company aimed at helping commercial astronauts train for spaceflight \u2014 just received Federal Aviation Administration safety approval for their plan to train would-be astronauts. Officials with the company hope to start training commercial spaceflyers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/spaceflight\/private-spaceflight\/\">private trips to space<\/a> in spring of this year. People holding tickets aboard a private spacecraft or space fans interested in learning how to fly to space are eligible to purchase a training package.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/24469-commercial-space-travel-faa-approval.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Miriam Kramer \u2014 Space.com Do you want to fly on a suborbital space plane? What about a rocket launch all they way into orbit? A new commercial spaceflight training company wants to help you develop the right stuff for flying to space. Waypoint 2 Space \u2014 a Houston-based company aimed at helping commercial astronauts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65050,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996\/revisions\/65050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}