{"id":144900,"date":"2022-08-26T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-sheep-a-dog-and-four-tiny-humans-are-about-to-go-to-space-as-nasas-moon-mission-prepares-for-blast-off"},"modified":"2022-08-26T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:22:45","slug":"a-sheep-a-dog-and-four-tiny-humans-are-about-to-go-to-space-as-nasas-moon-mission-prepares-for-blast-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-sheep-a-dog-and-four-tiny-humans-are-about-to-go-to-space-as-nasas-moon-mission-prepares-for-blast-off","title":{"rendered":"A Sheep, A Dog And Four Tiny \u2018Humans\u2019 Are About To Go To Space As NASA\u2019s Moon Mission Prepares For Blast-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-sheep-a-dog-and-four-tiny-humans-are-about-to-go-to-space-as-nasas-moon-mission-prepares-for-blast-off2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two much-loved characters and some LEGO minifigures have been assigned to NASA\u2019s Artemis I mission to the Moon. Shaun The Sheep and Snoopy are scheduled to lift-off during a two-hour window that opens at 8:33 a.m. EDT on Monday, August 29. If all goes to plan they\u2019ll flyby the Moon and eventually return to Earth in the Orion spacecraft 42 days later.<\/p>\n<p>This won\u2019t be Snoopy\u2019s first trip to space, having orbited Earth in a Space Shuttle in 1990. Snoopy will go to space this time as a visual indicator when a spacecraft has reached the weightlessness of microgravity. Interior cameras will capture the moment when Snoopy floats.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the abscence of humans on NASA\u2019s Artemis-1 mission around the Moon a cute selection of pop dolls, characters and \u201cmoonikins\u201d will go to space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two much-loved characters and some LEGO minifigures have been assigned to NASA\u2019s Artemis I mission to the Moon. Shaun The Sheep and Snoopy are scheduled to lift-off during a two-hour window that opens at 8:33 a.m. EDT on Monday, August 29. If all goes to plan they\u2019ll flyby the Moon and eventually return to Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144900","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}