{"id":180076,"date":"2024-01-08T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-first-us-moon-lander-in-more-than-50-years-launched-with-human-remains-on-board-paving-the-way-for-space-burials"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:23:06","slug":"the-first-us-moon-lander-in-more-than-50-years-launched-with-human-remains-on-board-paving-the-way-for-space-burials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-first-us-moon-lander-in-more-than-50-years-launched-with-human-remains-on-board-paving-the-way-for-space-burials","title":{"rendered":"The first US moon lander in more than 50 years launched with human remains on board, paving the way for space burials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-us-moon-lander-in-more-than-50-years-launched-with-human-remains-on-board-paving-the-way-for-space-burials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A US spacecraft carrying <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-cremated-remains-celestis-2019-6\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\">human remains<\/a> launched on Monday in a bid to become the first private mission to land on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>If it succeeds, Peregrine will also be the first US mission in more than 50 years to complete a lunar touchdown and could pave the way for commercial space services, such as lunar burials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the moment we\u2019ve been waiting for 16 years,\u201d John Thornton, CEO of Astrobiotic, the company behind the lander, said after the launch. \u201cWe are on our way to the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US spacecraft carrying human remains launched on Monday in a bid to become the first private mission to land on the moon. If it succeeds, Peregrine will also be the first US mission in more than 50 years to complete a lunar touchdown and could pave the way for commercial space services, such as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180076","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}