{"id":15229,"date":"2012-05-26T09:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15229"},"modified":"2012-05-26T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:47:04","slug":"the-cost-of-getting-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/the-cost-of-getting-to-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of getting to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a tweet passed along by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimHarford\/statuses\/206321953248788480\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Harford<\/a>, the Dragon flight is a huge bargain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/dcurtis\/\" target=\"_blank\">@dcurtis<\/a>: SpaceX&#8217;s entire history, incl. rocket design, testing, and launch operations, has cost less than Facebook paid for Instagram.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a tweet passed along by Tim Harford, the Dragon flight is a huge bargain: RT @dcurtis: SpaceX&#8217;s entire history, incl. rocket design, testing, and launch operations, has cost less than Facebook paid for Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,44,15,13],"tags":[391,716,708],"class_list":["post-15229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-space-science","category-technology","category-usa","tag-facebook","tag-spacecraft","tag-spacex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3XD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15230,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions\/15230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}