{"id":370,"date":"2012-02-07T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2012-03-26T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:33:08","slug":"whos-going-the-distance-in-the-private-sector-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s going the distance in the private sector space race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/10-major-players-in-private-sector-space-race.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spacecraft\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3f\/Sierra_Nevada_Dream_Chaser_spacecraft_2.jpg\/320px-Sierra_Nevada_Dream_Chaser_spacecraft_2.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spacecraft\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy NASA\/Bill Ingalls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Russia struggles to make up ground following a dozen-plus 2011 launch problems and the American Space Launch System sinks in Capitol Hill quicksand, the commercial space sector is racing to fill the gap \u2014 and to open new markets in space taxis, trucks and tourism. Since you can\u2019t tell the players without a program, here are the . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/10-major-players-in-private-sector-space-race.htm\" target=\"_blank\">10 Major Players in the Private Sector Space Race<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/new-space-race-quiz.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Quiz: Branson or Bezos: How well do you know the players in the new space race?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Russia struggles to make up ground following a dozen-plus 2011 launch problems and the American Space Launch System sinks in Capitol Hill quicksand, the commercial space sector is racing to fill the gap \u2014 and to open new markets in space taxis, trucks and tourism. Since you can\u2019t tell the players without a program, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who\u2019s going the distance in the private sector space race<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,63,94,14,4,3,57,13,30],"tags":[254,235,244,249,260,247,237,253,256,243,257,5,258,245,248,246,234,79,239,259,261,238,83,241,99,252,251,242,255,236,250,240,233],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-culture","category-engineering","category-green","category-history","category-science","category-space","category-technology","category-top-10","tag-atlas-v","tag-bigelow","tag-blue-origin","tag-boeing","tag-burt-rutan","tag-commercial-crew-development","tag-commercial-spaceflight","tag-dream-chaser","tag-elon-musk","tag-esa","tag-international-space-station","tag-inventors","tag-iss","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-mcdonnel-douglass","tag-n-prize","tag-nasa","tag-new-space-race","tag-orbital-sciences","tag-paul-allen","tag-private-sector","tag-remote-sensing","tag-richard-branson","tag-rockets","tag-sierra-nevada-space-systems","tag-spaceport-america","tag-spaceshiptwo","tag-spacex","tag-ultrawealthy","tag-united-launch-alliance","tag-virgin-galactic","tag-x-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}