{"id":187820,"date":"2024-04-21T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/japan-to-build-nasa-a-pressurized-moon-campervan-for-30-day-trips"},"modified":"2024-04-21T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:22:40","slug":"japan-to-build-nasa-a-pressurized-moon-campervan-for-30-day-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/japan-to-build-nasa-a-pressurized-moon-campervan-for-30-day-trips","title":{"rendered":"Japan to build NASA a pressurized Moon campervan for 30-day trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-to-build-nasa-a-pressurized-moon-campervan-for-30-day-trips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haven\u2019t posted in a while, my mother is not doing well, had to take her to the ER the other day, but this is important and I hope it sets a trend of cooperation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When NASA returns to the Moon, its astronauts will enjoy tooling around in a pressurized camper van courtesy of JAXA and Toyota. The two-person vehicle is part of a US\/Japan agreement that includes putting the first Japanese astronauts on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s beginning to look like NASA\u2019s program to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon will resemble a car show as much as it does a scientific expedition. The space agency recently awarded contracts to develop an open <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/space\/nasa-artemis-lunar-vehicles-moon\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">off road vehicle<\/a> to carry astronauts around on the Moon, though these are small and the driver and passengers have to wear spacesuits. Meanwhile, the Japanese vehicle being developed by JAXA and Toyota is a mobile outpost where the crew can live and work for up to 30 days in a shirt sleeve environment.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt while wearing loud Hawaiian shirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven\u2019t posted in a while, my mother is not doing well, had to take her to the ER the other day, but this is important and I hope it sets a trend of cooperation. When NASA returns to the Moon, its astronauts will enjoy tooling around in a pressurized camper van courtesy of JAXA and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187820","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\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}