{"id":176653,"date":"2023-11-24T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mateship-or-kakirra-australia-turns-to-public-to-name-its-1st-moon-rover"},"modified":"2023-11-24T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:26:40","slug":"mateship-or-kakirra-australia-turns-to-public-to-name-its-1st-moon-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mateship-or-kakirra-australia-turns-to-public-to-name-its-1st-moon-rover","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mateship\u2019 or \u2018Kakirra\u2019? Australia turns to public to name its 1st moon rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mateship-or-kakirra-australia-turns-to-public-to-name-its-1st-moon-rover.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Australian Space Agency has revealed its shortlist of names for the country\u2019s first lunar rover \u2014 and you can help choose the winner by casting your vote.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with NASA, the agency\u2019s Australian-made, semi-autonomous rover is slated to launch to the moon as part of a future Artemis mission by as early as 2026. The rover will have the ability to pick up lunar rocks and dust, then bring the specimens back to a moon lander operated by NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Space Agency has revealed its shortlist of names for the country\u2019s first lunar rover \u2014 and you can help choose the winner by casting your vote. In partnership with NASA, the agency\u2019s Australian-made, semi-autonomous rover is slated to launch to the moon as part of a future Artemis mission by as early as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176653","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}