{"id":132771,"date":"2021-12-20T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/space-missions-of-2021-that-took-our-appreciation-for-cosmos-to-new-heights"},"modified":"2021-12-20T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:23:20","slug":"space-missions-of-2021-that-took-our-appreciation-for-cosmos-to-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/space-missions-of-2021-that-took-our-appreciation-for-cosmos-to-new-heights","title":{"rendered":"Space Missions of 2021 That Took Our Appreciation for Cosmos to New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-missions-of-2021-that-took-our-appreciation-for-cosmos-to-new-heights2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover landed on February 18 and Zhurong arrived a bit later on May 14. UAE\u2019s Hope orbiter entered Martian orbit on February 9. Although all three of these missions were launched in 2020, their arrival is too significant not to count in this year\u2019s achievements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Billionaires, Private Space Flights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2021 could also appear as a year when you could finally believe that certain someone selling you a ticket to space is not a scam. Do not forget to fact-check their claims with the celebrity physicist Neil Tyson though. In July, when commercial spaceflight company Virgin Galactic\u2019s top management including the company\u2019s founder Richard Branson flew to a height of 86 kilometres, Tyson contested Virgin Galactic\u2019s space travel claim by saying it was a suborbital flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover landed on February 18 and Zhurong arrived a bit later on May 14. UAE\u2019s Hope orbiter entered Martian orbit on February 9. Although all three of these missions were launched in 2020, their arrival is too significant not to count in this year\u2019s achievements. Billionaires, Private Space Flights 2021 could also appear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132771","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=132771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}