{"id":19715,"date":"2012-10-19T19:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/paul-allen-discusses-the-stratolaunch-and-sports-at-u-s-space-rocket-center\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T19:39:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:39:37","slug":"paul-allen-discusses-the-stratolaunch-and-sports-at-u-s-space-rocket-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/paul-allen-discusses-the-stratolaunch-and-sports-at-u-s-space-rocket-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Allen discusses the Stratolaunch and sports at U.S. Space &#038; Rocket Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6287\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6287\" title=\"paulallen2\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/paulallen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/paulallen2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/paulallen2-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-6287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dressed in a black tuxedo, Paul Allen sat on stage in front of 800 people Wednesday night in Huntsville, Alabama and shared personal insight on a variety of questions. But his words weren\u2019t about new software, cloud computing or the Surface.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, the talk focused on two of the billionaire\u2019s other passions: space and sports.<\/p>\n<p>This is the new chapter for the life of Paul Allen, one that\u2019s taken the billionaire from the computing world into several completely unrelated \u2013 but still incredibly interesting \u2013 ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Allen spoke at the&nbsp;24th annual Dr. Wernher von Braun Memorial Dinner sponsored by the Huntsville chapter of the National Space Club. He touched on the developments with his space company&nbsp;Stratolaunch, funding of brain-mapping research&nbsp;at the Allen Institute for Brain Research in Seattle and his love for sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a time of transition,\u201d said Allen of investing in space. \u201cAnytime the guard is changing, it\u2019s a time of great challenges and great opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen was the keynote at Wednesday\u2019s dinner, which&nbsp;honors individuals and groups who have made significant contributions to the understanding and exploration of space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previously on GeekWire: Amazon buying Seattle HQ from Paul Allen for $1.16B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen Dressed in a black tuxedo, Paul Allen sat on stage in front of 800 people Wednesday night in Huntsville, Alabama and shared personal insight on a variety of questions. But his words weren\u2019t about new software, cloud computing or the Surface. Rather, the talk focused on two of the billionaire\u2019s other [&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":[5662,2672,5663,5091,2489],"class_list":["post-19715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blazers","tag-paul-allen","tag-seahawks","tag-sports-tech","tag-stratolaunch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715"}],"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=19715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}