{"id":39312,"date":"2019-05-10T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39312"},"modified":"2019-05-10T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:22:51","slug":"its-time-to-go-back-to-the-moon-jeff-bezos-unveils-plans-for-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39312","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s time to go back to the moon&#8217;: Jeff Bezos unveils plans for spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23\">\n<p>Rockets aren&#8217;t on time very often. Delays getting things to orbit is an &#8220;under-appreciated&#8221; problem in the industry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b2310ea3\">\n<p><span>&#8220;It really snarls things up and costs the payload customers a lot of money,&#8221; Bezos said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He added that Blue Origin&#8217;s New Glenn rocket is designed to change all that. And it was designed to be reusable because it can bring down launch prices.<\/p>\n<p>The latter point is something <mark>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has harped on for a long time<\/mark> \u2013 and his company has already been sending its reusable rockets to space and back for years.<\/p>\n<p>Like every other rocket builder currently operating, SpaceX is also known to delay its launches for various reasons, like weather or hardware issues.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin is well underway developing on New Glenn, which is expected to launch for the first time in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockets aren&#8217;t on time very often. Delays getting things to orbit is an &#8220;under-appreciated&#8221; problem in the industry. &#8220;It really snarls things up and costs the payload customers a lot of money,&#8221; Bezos said. He added that Blue Origin&#8217;s New Glenn rocket is designed to change all that. And it was designed to be reusable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}