{"id":30752,"date":"2016-10-04T23:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T06:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-united-nations-just-announced-its-first-ever-space-mission"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:11:42","slug":"the-united-nations-just-announced-its-first-ever-space-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-united-nations-just-announced-its-first-ever-space-mission","title":{"rendered":"The United Nations just announced its first ever space mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-united-nations-just-announced-its-first-ever-space-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations (UN) has announced its first ever official space mission, with the aim of giving developing countries the opportunity to conduct research in a microgravity environment.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, which is intended to launch in 2021, will make use of a Dream Chaser spacecraft \u2013 a shuttle-like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spaceplane\">spaceplane<\/a> that\u2019s currently in development by American aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC).<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the mission is to give developing nations \u2013 many of which don\u2019t have their own dedicated space operations or craft \u2013 a chance to develop and fly payloads for an extended duration in orbit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-united-nations-just-announced-its-first-ever-space-mission\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-united-nations-just-announce...ce-mission<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations (UN) has announced its first ever official space mission, with the aim of giving developing countries the opportunity to conduct research in a microgravity environment. The mission, which is intended to launch in 2021, will make use of a Dream Chaser spacecraft \u2013 a shuttle-like spaceplane that\u2019s currently in development by American [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30752","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66090,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30752\/revisions\/66090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}