{"id":10451,"date":"2015-04-23T01:58:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T05:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10451"},"modified":"2015-04-23T01:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T05:58:34","slug":"video-tmro-8-12-astrobotic-ceo-john-thornton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10451","title":{"rendered":"Video: TMRO 8.12 &#8211;  Astrobotic CEO John Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmro.tv\" target=\"_blank\">TMRO<\/a> live show featured an interview with\u00a0John Thornton, CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrobotic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astrobotic<\/a>, a private lunar exploration company and a competitor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lunar.xprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Lunar XPRIZE<\/a> competition:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJcJGH3BSxk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent\u00a0TMRO live show featured an interview with\u00a0John Thornton, CEO of\u00a0Astrobotic, a private lunar exploration company and a competitor in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,45,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-systems","category-spacecasts","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Iz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11492,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11492","url_meta":{"origin":10451,"position":0},"title":"Lunar Mission One and Astrobotic will take put your &#8220;Footsteps on the Moon&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Lunar Mission One\u00a0is a non-profit organization seeking to raise\u00a0public funding for\u00a0space science projects. 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