{"id":19599,"date":"2015-11-25T13:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T21:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/russia-and-europe-want-a-moon-colony-why-is-nasa-so-focused-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:57","slug":"russia-and-europe-want-a-moon-colony-why-is-nasa-so-focused-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/russia-and-europe-want-a-moon-colony-why-is-nasa-so-focused-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Europe Want a Moon Colony\u2014Why Is NASA So Focused on Mars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-and-europe-want-a-moon-colony-why-is-nasa-so-focused-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only 12 people\u2014all Americans\u2014have put their boots on the Moon. Today, however, NASA has no plans to send humans back to our pockmarked satellite. Instead, its space pioneers <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/10\/01\/who-will-become-the-first-martian-a-rundown-of-the-race-to-the-red-planet\/\">will shoot straight to Mars<\/a> (and wave to the Moon as they pass it by).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/11\/25\/russia-and-europe-want-a-moon-colony-why-is-nasa-so-focused-on-mars\/?utm_content=buffer05dc2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 12 people\u2014all Americans\u2014have put their boots on the Moon. Today, however, NASA has no plans to send humans back to our pockmarked satellite. Instead, its space pioneers will shoot straight to Mars (and wave to the Moon as they pass it by). Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69138,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions\/69138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}