{"id":713,"date":"2008-06-12T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/12\/27th-international-space-development-conference\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:33:00","slug":"27th-international-space-development-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/12\/27th-international-space-development-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"27th International Space Development Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reynolds posts a report on the 27th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isdc2008.org\/\">International Space Development Conference <\/a>(May 29-June 1, 2008) on The Atlantic&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The main source of excitement at this year&#8217;s conference was space tourism\u2014folks in the industry prefer the term &#8220;personal spaceflight&#8221;\u2014involving many companies, from the well-known (Richard Branson&#8217;s Virgin Galactic) to the sort-of-known (Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin) to the comparatively obscure (XCOR Aerospace). Just this week it was announced that Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to be a space tourist on a flight to the international space station in 2011. The space tourism business has, according to the results of a study presented at the conference, attracted over 1.2 billion dollars in investment, and grown its revenues from $175 million in 2006 to $268 million in 2007. That&#8217;s peanuts compared to what NASA is spending on the Space Station or its Constellation project aimed at returning to the Moon, but it&#8217;s real money and, unlike NASA&#8217;s budget, it&#8217;s growing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200806u\/space-progam\">Not Your Father&#8217;s Space Program<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reynolds posts a report on the 27th International Space Development Conference (May 29-June 1, 2008) on The Atlantic&#8217;s website: The main source of excitement at this year&#8217;s conference was space tourism\u2014folks in the industry prefer the term &#8220;personal spaceflight&#8221;\u2014involving &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/12\/27th-international-space-development-conference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}