{"id":57384,"date":"2017-05-15T04:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/moon-as-unprospected-eighth-continent-that-will-produce-trillionaires"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:01:07","slug":"moon-as-unprospected-eighth-continent-that-will-produce-trillionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/moon-as-unprospected-eighth-continent-that-will-produce-trillionaires","title":{"rendered":"Moon as unprospected eighth continent that will produce trillionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moon-as-unprospected-eighth-continent-that-will-produce-trillionaires.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lunar.xprize.org\/teams\/moon-express\" target=blank>Moon Express is one of only two teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition<\/a> with a verified launch contract for its 2017 lunar mission. In October 2015, Moon Express announced that it had signed the worlds\u2019 first multi-mission launch contract with Rocket Lab USA for 3 lunar missions between 2017 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Moon Express sees the moon as critical for humanity to become a multi-world species, and that our sister world, the Moon, is an eighth continent holding vast resources than can help us enrich and secure our future.<\/p>\n<p>MoonEx had been planning to place the International Lunar Observatory (ILO) on the Moon as early as 2018. The plan calls for placement of both a 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) radio telescope as well as an optical telescope at the South Pole of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/05\/moon-as-unprospected-eighth-continent-that-will-produce-trillionaires.html\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/05\/moon-as-unprospected-ei...aires.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Express is one of only two teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition with a verified launch contract for its 2017 lunar mission. In October 2015, Moon Express announced that it had signed the worlds\u2019 first multi-mission launch contract with Rocket Lab USA for 3 lunar missions between 2017 and 2020. Moon Express sees [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57384","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57552,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57384\/revisions\/57552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}