{"id":151596,"date":"2022-12-01T11:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/why-space-exploration-is-vital-to-humanity-nasas-former-chief-scientist"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:23:28","slug":"why-space-exploration-is-vital-to-humanity-nasas-former-chief-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/why-space-exploration-is-vital-to-humanity-nasas-former-chief-scientist","title":{"rendered":"Why space exploration is vital to humanity: NASA\u2019s former chief scientist"},"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\/68vxYRAony8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s former chief scientist on why space exploration is vital to humanity.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Humans are about to return to the Moon, and may go to Mars. An expert explains why space exploration is vital and can help us protect our \u2018pale blue dot\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s former chief scientist on why space exploration is vital to humanity. Humans are about to return to the Moon, and may go to Mars. An expert explains why space exploration is vital and can help us protect our \u2018pale blue dot\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151596","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\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}