{"id":8519,"date":"2017-07-18T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T06:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8519"},"modified":"2017-07-18T23:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T06:15:57","slug":"space-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/18\/space-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/07\/18\/nasa-mit-space-hotel\/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-tech-link#f_GYwy0tKmqV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from MASHABLE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Looking for a vacation splurge? Consider this space hotel<\/h1>\n<p>BY <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/author\/margaret-sullivan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MARGARET SULLIVAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/S7PcKYRgVrqXSz3nmxgsOI4ty78=\/950x534\/filters:quality(90)\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F539640%2Ff445e3da-e125-4180-8884-2378bce1eb7b.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of the space hotel Marina\" width=\"480\" \/><em>IMAGE: MIT MARINA PROJECT TEAM<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a hankering for adventure and several million dollars laying around? Then this might be the perfect getaway opportunity for you, if you can hold on tight for a few years.<\/p>\n<p>NASA recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/university-students-compete-in-yearlong-nasa-human-space-exploration-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/rascal.nianet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competition<\/a>, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2017\/mit-space-hotel-wins-nasa-graduate-design-competition-0628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won<\/a> by a team of graduate students from MIT, to design a commercially enabled habitable module for use low in Earth&#8217;s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: the MIT team basically just won a competition to design a luxury space <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1030961\/a-deluxe-room-with-an-earth-view-what-a-luxury-space-hotel-may-look-like-according-to-nasa-competition-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel would float just about 100-1,200 miles above Earth&#8217;s surface, and be made up of eight inflatable rooms arranged in a circle, kind of like a ceiling fan, attached to a NASA space station at the center.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/07\/18\/nasa-mit-space-hotel\/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-tech-link#f_GYwy0tKmqV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at MASHABLE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MASHABLE Looking for a vacation splurge? Consider this space hotel BY MARGARET SULLIVAN IMAGE: MIT MARINA PROJECT TEAM Do you have a hankering for adventure and several million dollars laying around? Then this might be the perfect getaway opportunity for you, if you can hold on tight for a few years. NASA recently held [&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-8519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519","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=8519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}