{"id":30240,"date":"2016-09-16T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/tiangong-2-is-a-chinese-space-laboratory-representing-the-second-stepping-stone-by-the-china-national-space-agency-on-a-path-to-establishing-a-modular-space-station-toward-the-beginning-of-the-next-de"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:15:12","slug":"tiangong-2-is-a-chinese-space-laboratory-representing-the-second-stepping-stone-by-the-china-national-space-agency-on-a-path-to-establishing-a-modular-space-station-toward-the-beginning-of-the-next-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/tiangong-2-is-a-chinese-space-laboratory-representing-the-second-stepping-stone-by-the-china-national-space-agency-on-a-path-to-establishing-a-modular-space-station-toward-the-beginning-of-the-next-de","title":{"rendered":"Tiangong-2 is a Chinese Space Laboratory representing the second stepping stone by the China National Space Agency on a path to establishing a modular space station toward the beginning of the next decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiangong-2-is-a-chinese-space-laboratory-representing-the-second-stepping-stone-by-the-china-national-space-agency-on-a-path-to-establishing-a-modular-space-station-toward-the-beginning-of-the-next-de.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiangong translates literally to \u2018Heavenly Palace\u2019 and is China\u2019s first space station program which, in its early stages, is not unlike the early Salyut space stations and the American Skylab \u2013 launched with equipment and supplies for a finite mission duration already on board and not serviced by cargo resupply vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s first Heavenly Palace arrived in orbit in late September 2011 after a flawless launch atop a Long March 2F rocket. Orbiting Earth over 300 Kilometers in altitude, Tiangong was first visited two months after launch when the uncrewed Shenzhou-8 spacecraft completed China\u2019s first automatic docking in space.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflight101.com\/tiangong-2\/\">http:\/\/spaceflight101.com\/tiangong-2\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiangong translates literally to \u2018Heavenly Palace\u2019 and is China\u2019s first space station program which, in its early stages, is not unlike the early Salyut space stations and the American Skylab \u2013 launched with equipment and supplies for a finite mission duration already on board and not serviced by cargo resupply vehicles. China\u2019s first Heavenly Palace [\u2026]<\/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-30240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30240","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=30240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66219,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30240\/revisions\/66219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}