{"id":3665,"date":"2013-07-27T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T18:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2013-07-27T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T20:46:10","slug":"there-is-another-way-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3665","title":{"rendered":"There is another way &#8211; to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/spacefrontier.org\/thereisanotherway\/\">new video<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/spacefrontier.org\/\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/spacefrontier.org\/\">Space Frontier Foundation<\/a> explains in a clear and straight-forward manner the affordable, incremental, commercial approach to space development that is the alternative to the unaffordable approach that NASA is currently going with its hyper-expensive super heavy lifter:<\/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\/pRtNhYChFJw?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>This new video from the Space Frontier Foundation explains in a clear and straight-forward manner the affordable, incremental, commercial approach to space development that is the alternative to the unaffordable approach that NASA is currently going with its hyper-expensive super heavy lifter:<\/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":[7,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-policy","category-space-settlement","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-X7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8530,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8530","url_meta":{"origin":3665,"position":0},"title":"Video: Island One space colony animation","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A simulation of :\u00a0Approach to Island One - PROJECT ION Another great animation from Steve Gunn, here we see an approach to an Island One space habitat.\u00a0 This is part of the\u00a0British Interplanetary Society's Project SPACE on space settlement. 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