{"id":18211,"date":"2015-10-07T21:52:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/google-lunar-x-prize-team-signs-contract-to-send-spacecraft-to-moon"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:48","slug":"google-lunar-x-prize-team-signs-contract-to-send-spacecraft-to-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/google-lunar-x-prize-team-signs-contract-to-send-spacecraft-to-moon","title":{"rendered":"Google Lunar X Prize team signs contract to send spacecraft to moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-lunar-x-prize-team-signs-contract-to-send-spacecraft-to-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Israeli engineers is the first to advance in an international competition sponsored by Google to send a privately-funded spacecraft to the moon, contest organizers announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli nonprofit group SpaceIL has signed a contract with American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX to launch an unmanned spacecraft into lunar orbit \u2014 the first step a team must take toward landing on the moon and winning the $20 million grand prize. The launch is expected to take place in the second half of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s contest is meant to encourage private industry to create new technologies to reach the moon at lower costs than what governments have spent in past lunar expeditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/lunar-xprize-spaceil-1.3261236\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Israeli engineers is the first to advance in an international competition sponsored by Google to send a privately-funded spacecraft to the moon, contest organizers announced Wednesday. The Israeli nonprofit group SpaceIL has signed a contract with American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX to launch an unmanned spacecraft into lunar orbit \u2014 the first step [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18211","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69398,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18211\/revisions\/69398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}