{"id":117333,"date":"2020-12-18T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T01:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/china-used-exoskeletons-to-recover-moon-samples"},"modified":"2020-12-18T17:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T01:22:45","slug":"china-used-exoskeletons-to-recover-moon-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/china-used-exoskeletons-to-recover-moon-samples","title":{"rendered":"China Used Exoskeletons to Recover Moon Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-used-exoskeletons-to-recover-moon-samples.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team in charge of recovering China\u2019s successfully returned lunar samples in Inner Mongolia wasn\u2019t just futuristic because it was picking up Moon rocks \u2014 its members also wore passive exoskeletons to help trudge through the snow, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3114387\/change-5-recovery-team-use-exoskeletons-aid-mission\"><em>South China Morning Post<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have been exhausted after walking 20 or 30 meters, but with the help of the exoskeleton, 100 meters or more was not a problem,\u201d one of the team members told <em>SCMP<\/em>. He was tasked with carrying 110 pounds of gear through the deep snow with temperatures well below 0 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team in charge of recovering China\u2019s successfully returned lunar samples in Inner Mongolia wasn\u2019t just futuristic because it was picking up Moon rocks \u2014 its members also wore passive exoskeletons to help trudge through the snow, the South China Morning Post reports. \u201cI would have been exhausted after walking 20 or 30 meters, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117333","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}