{"id":164881,"date":"2023-05-31T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/for-the-first-time-ever-17-people-were-in-earth-orbit-at-the-same-time"},"modified":"2023-05-31T15:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:26:45","slug":"for-the-first-time-ever-17-people-were-in-earth-orbit-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/for-the-first-time-ever-17-people-were-in-earth-orbit-at-the-same-time","title":{"rendered":"For the first time ever, 17 people were in Earth orbit at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-ever-17-people-were-in-earth-orbit-at-the-same-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new record was set when China\u2019s three-person Shenzhou 16 mission took to the skies on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>We have a new record for the highest number of people orbiting Earth at any one time. For a short time, the number of people in orbit totaled 17 off-world explorers from a total of five different countries.<\/p>\n<p>The new record was set after the launch of China\u2019s three-person Shenzhou 16 mission on Monday, May 29 at 9:31 p.m. EDT. The previous record was 14 people in orbit, set when the private Inspiration 4 mission took to the skies in September 2021.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA<\/p>\n<p>For a short time, the number of people in orbit totaled 17 off-world explorers from a total of five different countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new record was set when China\u2019s three-person Shenzhou 16 mission took to the skies on May 29. We have a new record for the highest number of people orbiting Earth at any one time. For a short time, the number of people in orbit totaled 17 off-world explorers from a total of five different [\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-164881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164881","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=164881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}