{"id":57332,"date":"2017-05-12T18:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T01:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nasa-just-revealed-its-4-step-plan-to-launch-a-year-long-mission-to-the-moon"},"modified":"2017-05-12T18:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T01:42:29","slug":"nasa-just-revealed-its-4-step-plan-to-launch-a-year-long-mission-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nasa-just-revealed-its-4-step-plan-to-launch-a-year-long-mission-to-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"NASA Just Revealed Its 4-Step Plan to Launch a Year-Long Mission to The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-just-revealed-its-4-step-plan-to-launch-a-year-long-mission-to-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-might-build-ice-homes-on-mars\">missions to Mars<\/a> have grabbed plenty of headlines in recent years, but before we set off for the Red Planet, a lot more research is needed \u2013 and that\u2019s why NASA has a new plan for sending astronauts into orbit around the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a while \u2013 we last set foot on the Moon <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_17\">in 1972<\/a>. But NASA thinks <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cislunar\">the cislunar orbit<\/a> (between the Moon and the Earth) is going to be an essential testing site and launching pad for reaching Mars in the 2030s.<\/p>\n<p>As NASA\u2019s Greg Williams explained this week at <a href=\"https:\/\/h2m.exploremars.org\/\">the Humans to Mars Summit<\/a> in Washington DC, the Moon mission is on the slate for 2027 and could see a crew spending a year sailing above the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-has-plans-to-send-astronauts-back-to-the-moon-s-orbit-for-a-year\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-has-plans-to-send-astronaut...for-a-year<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming missions to Mars have grabbed plenty of headlines in recent years, but before we set off for the Red Planet, a lot more research is needed \u2013 and that\u2019s why NASA has a new plan for sending astronauts into orbit around the Moon. It\u2019s been a while \u2013 we last set foot on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57332","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}