{"id":121501,"date":"2021-04-13T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/spacex-falcon-heavy-to-launch-nasas-viper-lunar-lander"},"modified":"2021-04-13T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:23:14","slug":"spacex-falcon-heavy-to-launch-nasas-viper-lunar-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/spacex-falcon-heavy-to-launch-nasas-viper-lunar-lander","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch NASA\u2019s VIPER lunar lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aTJ8-1WonbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On April 13, 2021, Astrobotic announced that the Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the Griffin lander carrying NASA\u2019s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> | footage &amp; animations: SpaceX &amp; Astrobotic | produced &amp; edited by Steve Spaleta (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/stevespaleta\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/stevespaleta<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 13, 2021, Astrobotic announced that the Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the Griffin lander carrying NASA\u2019s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage &amp; animations: SpaceX &amp; Astrobotic | produced &amp; edited by Steve Spaleta (http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/stevespaleta)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121501","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}