{"id":117250,"date":"2020-12-17T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/canada-to-become-second-nation-ever-to-send-people-to-the-moon"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:22:26","slug":"canada-to-become-second-nation-ever-to-send-people-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/canada-to-become-second-nation-ever-to-send-people-to-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Canada to become second nation ever to send people to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canada-to-become-second-nation-ever-to-send-people-to-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To date, only Americans have travelled to the Moon. On Artemis 2, that will change when the Canadian Space Agency sends one of its four astronauts on the first-ever crewed flight of NASA\u2019s Orion capsule and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a near two week test flight around the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>The as yet un-assigned crewmember will become the first Canadian to travel to lunar orbit and will be one of up-to four crew on the scheduled 2023 Artemis 2 test flight \u2014 making Canada only the second nation to send one of its citizens to our closest neighbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To date, only Americans have travelled to the Moon. On Artemis 2, that will change when the Canadian Space Agency sends one of its four astronauts on the first-ever crewed flight of NASA\u2019s Orion capsule and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a near two week test flight around the Moon. The as yet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117250","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}