{"id":17695,"date":"2020-06-03T21:41:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-investor-dylan-taylor-reserves-a-spot-for-payload-on-xplores-first-space-mission\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T21:41:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:41:34","slug":"space-investor-dylan-taylor-reserves-a-spot-for-payload-on-xplores-first-space-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-investor-dylan-taylor-reserves-a-spot-for-payload-on-xplores-first-space-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Space investor Dylan Taylor reserves a spot for payload on Xplore\u2019s first space mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_566969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-566969\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-566969\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200603-xplore-630x420.png\" alt=\"Xplore's Xcraft\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200603-xplore-630x420.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200603-xplore-1260x840.png 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200603-xplore-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200603-xplore-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200603-xplore-2048x1365.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-566969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows Xplore\u2019s Xcraft probe near the moon. (Xplore Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seattle-based Xplore says space investor and philanthropist Dylan Taylor plans to reserve payload space on its first mission beyond Earth orbit, on behalf of a nonprofit group he founded.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taylor, the chairman and CEO of Colorado-based Voyager Space Holdings, said in a news release that Xplore\u2019s Xcraft multi-mission spacecraft \u201cgives the flexibility needed to design the optimum payload and send it to space.\u201d Xplore said details about the nature of the payload and the financial arrangements for the reservation were confidential for now.<\/li>\n<li>Taylor founded Space for Humanity in 2017 to expand access to space and foster a sense of connectedness on Earth. Its marquee program aims to send citizen astronauts on all-expenses-paid journeys to the space frontier.<\/li>\n<li>Xplore is working toward sending its Xcraft probes to the moon and other destinations beyond Earth orbit, starting as early as next year. \u201cIn the same way that we allow scientists to focus on the science,not the spacecraft, Xplore gives Space for Humanity the freedom to focus on the purpose of their payload and how they plan to support it via meaningful engagement and outreach programs that benefit their organization\u2019s mission,\u201d said Lisa Rich, Xplore\u2019s co-founder and chief operating officer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows Xplore\u2019s Xcraft probe near the moon. (Xplore Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore says space investor and philanthropist Dylan Taylor plans to reserve payload space on its first mission beyond Earth orbit, on behalf of a nonprofit group he founded. Taylor, the chairman and CEO of Colorado-based Voyager Space Holdings, said in a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4821,4626,4822,4426],"class_list":["post-17695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dylan-taylor","tag-space-for-humanity","tag-voyager-space-holdings","tag-xplore"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}