{"id":17580,"date":"2023-08-03T23:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T22:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=17580"},"modified":"2023-08-04T23:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:09:57","slug":"space_flight_is_still_too_expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/08\/03\/space_flight_is_still_too_expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Space flight is still too expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen years ago I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/08\/04\/if-i-had-a-million-dollars-to-spare\/\">looking hopefully at the possibility of space tourism<\/a>. Too bad the prices haven&#8217;t come down much since then &#8211; it&#8217;s still from a quarter to half a million USD even for brief suborbital flights. And unsurprisingly I haven&#8217;t gotten any million-dollar windfalls in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen years ago I was looking hopefully at the possibility of space tourism. Too bad the prices haven&#8217;t come down much since then &#8211; it&#8217;s still from a quarter to half a million USD even for brief suborbital flights. And unsurprisingly I haven&#8217;t gotten any million-dollar windfalls in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky_things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17581,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580\/revisions\/17581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}