{"id":9993,"date":"2022-06-05T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T18:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2022-06-08T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T21:28:08","slug":"when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-an-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-an-astronaut\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Grow Up, I Want to be an Astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up as a kid, I loved looking into the night sky and imagining what space <\/span>might be like and what I would do as an astronaut. As I grew older, of course, I <\/span>realized that spaceflight was a dream I\u2019d never actually experience, or will I? <\/span>The space race of yesteryear might have ended with the first person to reach the <\/span>moon, but there is a new race underway.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a recent article1<\/span> by Josh <\/span>Dinner, a contributing writer for Space.com, Boeing launched Starliner into space on <\/span>May 19 to demonstrate how the uncrewed vehicle could navigate and dock to the <\/span>International Space Station (ISS) and return home safely. While the vetting process <\/span>is far from done, another flight with a crew on board could happen before the end of <\/span>the year.
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Boeing isn\u2019t the only private company vying to transport astronauts to the ISS. Elon <\/span>Musk\u2019s SpaceX also holds a contract with Nasa\u2019s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) <\/span>and has already had four successful crewed missions. While these flights certainly <\/span>pique the interest of space enthusiasts, I think that it\u2019s important to recognize how <\/span>it plays into the rest of our daily lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

The potential for advancing healthcare and agriculture through near zero gravity research is real, the potential for inhabiting <\/span>the moon is real and the technology we develop in pursuit of these causes is very <\/span>real.
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Drawing on experience from the Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX has also <\/span>developed the Starship. A combination of spacecraft & lunar lander with a rocket <\/span>launching system. Purportedly, the Starship can carry as many as 100 people to the <\/span>surfaces of the moon or mars.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can chalk the claim up to science fiction but there is already a private flight scheduled for 2023 to circumvent the moon with <\/span>private citizens though, lunar landings are not expected until 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly, the childhood dream of space travel is becoming a real possibility and as a technologist, <\/span>I look forward to the derived technological innovation that will benefit us all whether <\/span>we have the get to travel to space or not.
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Dinner, J. (2022, May 30). <\/span>What’s next for Boeing’s Starliner Capsule after <\/span>Historic Space Station Mission?<\/span> Space.com. Retrieved May 31, 2022, <\/span>from https:\/\/www.space.com\/boeing-starliner-oft-2-mission-next-steps <\/a><\/span>

\n1<\/span> Dinner, J. (2022, May 30). <\/span>What’s next for Boeing’s Starliner Capsule <\/span>after Historic Space Station Mission?<\/span> Space.com. Retrieved May 31, <\/span>2022, from https:\/\/www.space.com\/boeing-starliner-oft-2-mission-next-<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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