{"id":8777,"date":"2017-11-20T14:04:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8777"},"modified":"2017-11-21T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:07:42","slug":"space-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/20\/space-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/881454\/space-station-nation-asgardia-futuristic-life-in-space-russia-billionaire-satellite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Daily Express<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>World\u2019s first &#8216;space nation&#8217; takes flight as 200,000 people prepare for futuristic life<\/h1>\n<h3>SPACE nation, Asgardia, has launched its first satellite a year after Russian billionaire Dr Igor Ashurbeyli proposed the plans.<\/h3>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/search?s=%20Thomas%20Mackie&amp;b=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THOMAS MACKIE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/space-space-station-space-nation-asgardia-futuristic-life-russia-billionaire-life-in-space-aliens-earth-astronauts-881454.jpg\" alt=\"World\u2019s first 'space nation' takes flight\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"photo-caption nointellitxt ctx_blocked defaultLeft\">GETTY<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than 500,000 people applied to become citizens of Asgardia, the first space nation that will orbit the Earth and be free from politics and laws.<\/p>\n<p>The idea came from billionaire Russian computer scientist Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, who has already confirmed the first 200,000 citizens from the initial 500,000 applicants.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week the Asgardia-1 satellite was launched.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is roughly the size of a loaf of bread and contains the personal details of 18,000 Asgardia&#8217;s citizens including things such as family photographs.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a copy of Asgardia&#8217;s flag, coat of arms and constitution aboard.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/881454\/space-station-nation-asgardia-futuristic-life-in-space-russia-billionaire-satellite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Express<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Express World\u2019s first &#8216;space nation&#8217; takes flight as 200,000 people prepare for futuristic life SPACE nation, Asgardia, has launched its first satellite a year after Russian billionaire Dr Igor Ashurbeyli proposed the plans. By THOMAS MACKIE GETTY More than 500,000 people applied to become citizens of Asgardia, the first space nation that [&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-8777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777","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=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}