{"id":144035,"date":"2022-08-15T21:04:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/south-korea-just-launched-a-rocket-to-orbit-the-moon-a-first-for-the-country"},"modified":"2022-08-15T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:04:39","slug":"south-korea-just-launched-a-rocket-to-orbit-the-moon-a-first-for-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/south-korea-just-launched-a-rocket-to-orbit-the-moon-a-first-for-the-country","title":{"rendered":"South Korea just launched a rocket to orbit the Moon, a first for the country"},"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\/oc3ajUVv80Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>South Korea\u2019s Moon mission<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The mission will circle the Moon for about a year at about 100 kilometers above the surface, searching for possible landing sites for future missions, conducting scientific research on the lunar environment, and testing space internet technology, South Korea\u2019s Ministry of Science and ICT said in a statement. This mission will help prepare the country\u2019s small space program for future exploration, as they hope to send a lander to the Moon by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>If it successfully goes into orbit at the Moon, South Korea will become the seventh nation to undertake lunar exploration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s Moon mission The mission will circle the Moon for about a year at about 100 kilometers above the surface, searching for possible landing sites for future missions, conducting scientific research on the lunar environment, and testing space internet technology, South Korea\u2019s Ministry of Science and ICT said in a statement. This mission will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144035","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=144035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}