{"id":120160,"date":"2021-03-03T16:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/astronauts-explore-caves-on-earth-learning-the-skills-theyll-need-for-the-moon-and-mars"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:22:27","slug":"astronauts-explore-caves-on-earth-learning-the-skills-theyll-need-for-the-moon-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/astronauts-explore-caves-on-earth-learning-the-skills-theyll-need-for-the-moon-and-mars","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Explore Caves on Earth, Learning the Skills They\u2019ll Need for the Moon and Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronauts-explore-caves-on-earth-learning-the-skills-theyll-need-for-the-moon-and-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A unique training program has teams of astronauts spending time inside caves doing experiments and learning to work together in a challenging environment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We\u2019re accustomed to astronauts pulling off their missions without a hitch. They head up to the International Space Station for months at a time and do what they do, then come home. But upcoming missions to the surface of the Moon, and maybe Mars, present a whole new set of challenges.<\/p>\n<p>One way astronauts are preparing for those challenges is by exploring the extreme environment inside caves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unique training program has teams of astronauts spending time inside caves doing experiments and learning to work together in a challenging environment. We\u2019re accustomed to astronauts pulling off their missions without a hitch. They head up to the International Space Station for months at a time and do what they do, then come home. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120160","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=120160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}