{"id":179612,"date":"2024-01-01T11:24:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T17:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/two-space-stories-in-2024-will-determine-the-future-of-humanity"},"modified":"2024-01-01T11:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T17:24:56","slug":"two-space-stories-in-2024-will-determine-the-future-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/two-space-stories-in-2024-will-determine-the-future-of-humanity","title":{"rendered":"Two Space Stories In 2024 Will Determine The Future Of Humanity"},"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\/ufsrgE0BYf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>A long-awaited space mission in the coming year could herald the start of a new era where so many science fiction dreams finally begin to cement themselves as science fact. But first we must pass a critical test of our own making that pits our technological expansion into orbit against the sun itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that difficult to predict what science stories we\u2019ll be talking about over the next year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jenniferkitepowell\/2023\/12\/29\/how-some-experts-see-the-future-of-ai-in-2024\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jenniferkitepowell\/2023\/12\/29\/how-some-experts-see-the-future-of-ai-in-2024\/\" aria-label=\"artificial intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouruncertainfuture.com\/p\/the-west-is-on-fire\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ouruncertainfuture.com\/p\/the-west-is-on-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"climate change\">climate change<\/a> and advances in biotechnology will remain front of mind. But there\u2019s a pair of happenings just beyond our planet that I\u2019ll be watching closely, because they amount to tests of a sort that could determine the trajectory of our species.<\/p>\n<p>The first story you\u2019ve probably already heard about. NASA aims to launch its Artemis II mission by the end of the year, carrying humans on a journey around the moon and back. This marks the first time anyone has traveled farther than low-earth orbit in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-awaited space mission in the coming year could herald the start of a new era where so many science fiction dreams finally begin to cement themselves as science fact. But first we must pass a critical test of our own making that pits our technological expansion into orbit against the sun itself. It\u2019s not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179612","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=179612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}