{"id":11712,"date":"2021-10-29T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11712"},"modified":"2021-11-07T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T18:40:08","slug":"cosmic-pit-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/29\/cosmic-pit-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Pit Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/military-preparing-space-superhighway-complete-pit-stops\/186260\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Defense One<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Military is Preparing for a \u2018Space Superhighway,\u2019 Complete with Pit Stops<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Those hubs would do more than refuel spaceships; they are seen as key to staying ahead of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/voices\/tara-copp\/16943\/?oref=d1-post-author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BY TARA COPP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24 HOURS AT THE WORLD&#039;S LARGEST TRUCK STOP\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ao0GafuL86k?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like any family road trip, future missions to the moon and beyond may require a few pit stops.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Transportation Command and the U.S. Space Force see a future space superhighway system where the United States, commercial partners, and allies would be able to make repeat, regular trips to the moon or beyond by using multiple hubs where they could gas up, have maintenance done, and even throw out their trash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now they\u2019re thinking about getting those orbiting pit stops up and running sooner rather than later. Because it\u2019s not just about making the 238,855-mile lunar journey a little more comfortable. It\u2019s about preventing China from building the hubs first.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/military-preparing-space-superhighway-complete-pit-stops\/186260\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Defense One<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Defense One The Military is Preparing for a \u2018Space Superhighway,\u2019 Complete with Pit Stops Those hubs would do more than refuel spaceships; they are seen as key to staying ahead of China. BY TARA COPP Like any family road trip, future missions to the moon and beyond may require a few pit stops.&nbsp; U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}