{"id":35040,"date":"2011-05-07T18:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T18:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/going-suborbital\/"},"modified":"2011-05-07T18:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T18:52:01","slug":"going-suborbital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/going-suborbital.php","title":{"rendered":"Going Suborbital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/41c76_nastar.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2011\/110504\/full\/473021a.html\">Space science: Along for the ride<\/a>, Nature<\/p><p><i>\"Three days after Discovery 's launch ... two planetary scientists are talking with a group of fellow researchers about what should come next. Sipping his drink, Daniel Durda laments that after half a century, only about 500 people have flown in space. Access to humanity's final frontier is still restricted to people employed by a handful of powerful governments and corporations, plus the occasional joyriding mega-millionaire. \"I'd prefer for anyone to be able to go, for any reason they choose,\" says Durda, of the Boulder, Colorado, branch of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).\"<\/i><\/p><p>- <a href=\"http:\/\/nasawatch.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/video-first-sub.html\">Video: First Suborbital Scientist Class Trains at NASTAR Center<\/a>, earlier post<br>- <a href=\"http:\/\/nasawatch.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/videos-flying-s.html\">Videos: Flying SpaceShipTwo in a Centrifuge<\/a>, earlier post<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/41c76_arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <b>Keith's  note: <\/b> I will be part of suborbital scientist training program at NASTAR next week. I hope to bring you more video and updates - including a personal look at what it is like to fly a SpaceShip Two profile in a centrifuge. We hope to live stream some of us riding a full 6G Virgin Galactic flight on Wednesday. Stay tuned.<\/p><p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/41c76_hJ9luGDvurg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space science: Along for the ride, Nature\"Three days after Discovery 's launch ... two planetary scientists are talking with a group of fellow researchers about what should come next. Sipping his drink, Daniel Durda laments that after half a century, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/going-suborbital.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}