{"id":7257,"date":"2014-04-08T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2014-04-08T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:33:09","slug":"stephen-hawkings-reasons-for-space-exploration-a-space-boffins-reasons-for-space-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7257","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking&#8217;s reasons for space exploration + A space boffin&#8217;s reasons for space tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawking.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Hawking<\/a>\u00a0gives his &#8220;Reasons for Space Exploration&#8221; and\u00a0expresses his optimistic view of the future of spaceflight (via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketeers.co.uk\/node\/3772\" target=\"_d\">Rocketeers<\/a>):<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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\/m6-JR0If3DY?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&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=UUz1hQ68G3XPVYEBoFDgSjcQ\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>And science journalist\u00a0Richard Hollingham\u00a0of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/HTML\/podcasts\/astronomy\/space-boffins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space Boffins<\/a> gives his reasons for why space tourism is important :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20140408-six-reasons-space-tourism-matters\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20140408-six-reasons-space-tourism-matters\">Six reasons why space tourism matters &#8211; BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking\u00a0gives his &#8220;Reasons for Space Exploration&#8221; and\u00a0expresses his optimistic view of the future of spaceflight (via\u00a0Rocketeers):\u00a0 === And science journalist\u00a0Richard Hollingham\u00a0of the Space Boffins gives his reasons for why space tourism is important :\u00a0Six reasons why space tourism matters &#8211; BBC.<\/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":[82,18,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future","category-space-settlement","category-spaceflight-parabolic-flight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1T3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6448,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6448","url_meta":{"origin":7257,"position":0},"title":"Copenhagen Suborbitals: Cameron Smith&#8217;s year of making space suits","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr.\u00a0Cameron M. 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