{"id":26946,"date":"2016-06-16T10:46:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/leading-astronomer-urges-europe-to-end-human-space-missions"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:32:55","slug":"leading-astronomer-urges-europe-to-end-human-space-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/leading-astronomer-urges-europe-to-end-human-space-missions","title":{"rendered":"Leading astronomer urges Europe to end human space missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leading-astronomer-urges-europe-to-end-human-space-missions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This guy is just\u2026 wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Just totally and completely WRONG.<\/p>\n<p>PERIOD.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Britain\u2019s leading astronomer has called on Europe to end human spaceflights because he says they are no longer cost effective or a benefit to science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/people\/martin-rees-12156\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomer Martin Rees<\/a> told CNN that the European Space Agency (ESA) should focus on robotic exploration instead.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/06\/16\/europe\/human-space-missions\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/06\/16\/europe\/human-space-missions\/index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy is just\u2026 wrong. Just totally and completely WRONG. PERIOD. Britain\u2019s leading astronomer has called on Europe to end human spaceflights because he says they are no longer cost effective or a benefit to science. Astronomer Martin Rees told CNN that the European Space Agency (ESA) should focus on robotic exploration instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50255,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946\/revisions\/50255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}