{"id":137696,"date":"2022-04-04T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/50-years-ago-a-soviet-spacecraft-spent-a-critical-50-minutes-on-venus"},"modified":"2022-04-04T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:02:18","slug":"50-years-ago-a-soviet-spacecraft-spent-a-critical-50-minutes-on-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/50-years-ago-a-soviet-spacecraft-spent-a-critical-50-minutes-on-venus","title":{"rendered":"50 years ago, a Soviet spacecraft spent a critical 50 minutes on Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/50-years-ago-a-soviet-spacecraft-spent-a-critical-50-minutes-on-venus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Venera-8 made a photo of Venus\u2019 surface possible.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Launched in March 1972, Venera-8 was part of the Soviet Union\u2019s exploration of Venus \u2014 in less than an hour it revealed critical details of this seemingly inaccessible planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venera-8 made a photo of Venus\u2019 surface possible. Launched in March 1972, Venera-8 was part of the Soviet Union\u2019s exploration of Venus \u2014 in less than an hour it revealed critical details of this seemingly inaccessible planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137696","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}