{"id":2462,"date":"2013-05-23T20:15:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2013-05-23T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T20:15:02","slug":"space-settlement-an-interview-with-al-globus-settlements-need-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2462","title":{"rendered":"Space settlement: An interview with Al Globus + Settlements need kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Globus, who has the website <a href=\"http:\/\/space.alglobus.net\/\" target=\"_d\">Orbital Space Settlement<\/a>, discusses the &#8220;three paths to space settlement&#8221; during an interview at the Space Access 2013 conference in Phoenix, Arizona last April:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/moonandback.com\/2013\/05\/20\/al-globus-space-settlement-moonandback-interview\/\" target=\"_d\">Al Globus &#8211; Space Settlement &#8211; Moonandback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>If having and raising healthy children in the low Mars gravity is not possible, then bases there will never become settlements: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizensinspace.org\/2013\/05\/mars-one-whats-the-point\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=mars-one-whats-the-point\" target=\"_d\">Mars One: What\u2019s the Point? &#8211; Citizens in Space<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Globus, who has the website Orbital Space Settlement, discusses the &#8220;three paths to space settlement&#8221; during an interview at the Space Access 2013 conference in Phoenix, Arizona last April:\u00a0 Al Globus &#8211; Space Settlement &#8211; Moonandback. === If having and raising healthy children in the low Mars gravity is not possible, then bases there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space settlement: An interview with Al Globus + Settlements need kids<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-DI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2661,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2661","url_meta":{"origin":2462,"position":0},"title":"Al Globus and space settlement, pt. 2","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Al Globus continues his discussion of space settlement in part two of his Moonandback interview: Al Globus \u2013 Prognosis for Settlement - Moonandback. 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