{"id":4576,"date":"2013-09-22T01:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2013-09-22T01:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:32:14","slug":"democratizing-space-the-cost-to-put-experiments-into-space-is-dropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4576","title":{"rendered":"Democratizing space – the cost to put experiments into space is dropping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opportunities for students to put experiments into space, both suborbital and orbital, are growing as costs for spaceflight fall: Got $5,000? Do A Science Experiment In Space: Space is becoming democratized. No matter how silly or smart your science is, you can soon pay to launch it to the stars<\/em> – Co.Exist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opportunities for students to put experiments into space, both suborbital and orbital, are growing as costs for spaceflight fall: Got $5,000? Do A Science Experiment In Space: Space is becoming democratized. No matter how silly or smart your science is, you can soon pay to launch it to the stars – Co.Exist<\/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":[35,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-education","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1bO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5636,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5636","url_meta":{"origin":4576,"position":0},"title":"SFF sponsored student experiment going to ISS on Antares Rocket","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from the Space Frontier Foundation: Student Experiment Headed to the ISS on Antares Rocket When Amy McCormick's class developed their science experiment studying Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), they could only dream of flying it to space. 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