{"id":282,"date":"2013-01-29T03:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2013-01-29T03:22:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:22:37","slug":"the-spaceliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"The Spaceliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SpaceLiner\" target=\"_d\">SpaceLiner<\/a> concept looks hopelessly expensive and impractical for point-to-point travel but something like it might work for transport to space once there are large habitats in orbit: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-01-planners-hypersonic-spaceliner-craft-year.html\" target=\"_blank\">Planners for hypersonic SpaceLiner craft propose a 50 year timeline &#8211; PhysOrg <\/a><\/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\/DUT46paYHNM?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 European SpaceLiner concept looks hopelessly expensive and impractical for point-to-point travel but something like it might work for transport to space once there are large habitats in orbit: Planners for hypersonic SpaceLiner craft propose a 50 year timeline &#8211; PhysOrg<\/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":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7683,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7683","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":0},"title":"Review: &#8220;Perigee&#8221; by Patrick Chiles","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"After procrastinating for ages, I'm finally starting a series of \u00a0book reviews. 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