{"id":113987,"date":"2020-10-07T05:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/uae-to-develop-small-lunar-rover"},"modified":"2020-10-07T05:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:22:27","slug":"uae-to-develop-small-lunar-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/uae-to-develop-small-lunar-rover","title":{"rendered":"UAE to develop small lunar rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uae-to-develop-small-lunar-rover.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The United Arab Emirates plans to send a small rover to the moon in 2024, the latest step in the country\u2019s growing space ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, vice president and ruler of Dubai, formally announced the Emirates Lunar Mission Sept. 29. That mission will place a small rover on the moon carrying several instruments that officials with the country\u2019s space agency say will complement lunar missions by other nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimarily, we would like to advance our capabilities and technologies,\u201d said Hamad Al Marzooqi, project manager for the Emirates Lunar Mission at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, in an Oct. 5 interview. \u201cSince we\u2019re going to the moon, it would be a shame if we don\u2019t do interesting science there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The United Arab Emirates plans to send a small rover to the moon in 2024, the latest step in the country\u2019s growing space ambitions. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, vice president and ruler of Dubai, formally announced the Emirates Lunar Mission Sept. 29. That mission will place a small rover on the moon carrying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}