{"id":126005,"date":"2021-08-08T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T01:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nasa-rocket-lab-move-first-artemis-moon-launch"},"modified":"2021-08-08T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T01:22:18","slug":"nasa-rocket-lab-move-first-artemis-moon-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nasa-rocket-lab-move-first-artemis-moon-launch","title":{"rendered":"NASA, Rocket Lab move first Artemis Moon launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-rocket-lab-move-first-artemis-moon-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is now set to host the first launch of the Artemis Program, as Rocket Lab is now planning to launch the CAPSTONE mission from their operational launch pad at Launch Complex 1 on the M\u0101hia Peninsula. This is the first lunar mission for Rocket Lab, currently scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlexible isn\u2019t a word usually used to describe lunar missions but operating two launch complexes gives us the freedom to select a site that best meets mission requirements and schedule,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/tag\/rocket-lab\/\">Rocket Lab<\/a> CEO and Co-Founder, Peter Beck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand is now set to host the first launch of the Artemis Program, as Rocket Lab is now planning to launch the CAPSTONE mission from their operational launch pad at Launch Complex 1 on the M\u0101hia Peninsula. This is the first lunar mission for Rocket Lab, currently scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126005","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=126005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}