{"id":13246,"date":"2024-04-28T23:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T23:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13246"},"modified":"2024-04-30T23:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:07:03","slug":"colonizing-the-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/28\/colonizing-the-dark-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonizing The Dark Side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/china-set-launch-high-stakes-032142819.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Yahoo! News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"caas-lead-header-undefined\">China set to launch high-stakes mission to moon&#8217;s &#8216;hidden&#8217; side<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Albee Zhang and Ryan Woo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pink Floyd - On The Run (50th Anniversary Competition Winner&#039;s Video)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PeDofGtFk78?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIJING, April 29 (Reuters) &#8211; China will send a robotic spacecraft in coming days on a round trip to the moon&#8217;s far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that will pave the way for an inaugural Chinese crewed landing and a base on the lunar south pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the first Chang&#8217;e mission in 2007, named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess, China has made leaps forward in its lunar exploration, narrowing the technological chasm with the United States and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, China brought back samples from the moon&#8217;s near side in the first sample retrieval in more than four decades, confirming for the first time it could safely return an uncrewed spacecraft to Earth from the lunar surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, China is expected to launch Chang&#8217;e-6 using the backup spacecraft from the 2020 mission, and collect soil and rocks from the side of the moon that permanently faces away from Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/china-set-launch-high-stakes-032142819.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Yahoo! News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Yahoo! News China set to launch high-stakes mission to moon&#8217;s &#8216;hidden&#8217; side by Albee Zhang and Ryan Woo BEIJING, April 29 (Reuters) &#8211; China will send a robotic spacecraft in coming days on a round trip to the moon&#8217;s far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that will pave the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}