{"id":2695,"date":"2017-12-04T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2017-12-04T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:45:56","slug":"a-vision-for-humanitys-future-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=2695","title":{"rendered":"A Vision for Humanity\u2019s Future in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hqW9HtPCnR0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Planetary Resources dixit:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asteroid mining is the key to our future expansion into space.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary Resources is conducting the first commercial exploration of resources on near Earth asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>The first resource that we&#8217;re interested in is water. Water, when you break it down into the elements Hydrogen and Oxygen, is rocket fuel \u2013 currently the best way to get around the Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>In much the same way that the economic activity on Earth is enabled by fossil fuels, in space, we will have a water-based economy. The Earth&#8217;s gravity well is so deep that the cost of bringing propellant from Earth to fuel that economy in space will be prohibitive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about how <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/2017\/11\/asteroid-mining-is-the-key-to-our-future-expansion-into-space\/\">asteroid mining is the key to our future expansion into space.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video credit: Planetary Resources<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planetary Resources is conducting the first commercial exploration of resources on near Earth asteroids. The first resource that we&#8217;re interested in is water. Water, when you break it down into the elements Hydrogen and Oxygen, is rocket fuel \u2013 currently the best way to get around the Solar System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1,365,463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotic-exploration","category-space-exploration","category-sustainability","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}