{"id":72900,"date":"2017-09-28T18:43:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/nasa-and-russia-partner-up-for-crewed-deep-space-missions"},"modified":"2017-09-28T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:43:24","slug":"nasa-and-russia-partner-up-for-crewed-deep-space-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/nasa-and-russia-partner-up-for-crewed-deep-space-missions","title":{"rendered":"NASA and Russia Partner Up for Crewed Deep-Space Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-and-russia-partner-up-for-crewed-deep-space-missions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos have announced a new partnership for human exploration of the moon and deep space. Both agencies signed a joint statement on cooperation today (Sept. 27) at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to partner with Russia on human missions to the moon and beyond came about as NASA continues to flesh out ideas for its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/37619-nasa-deep-space-gateway-module-outreach.html\">deep-space gateway<\/a>\u201d concept, a mission architecture designed to send astronauts into cislunar space \u2014 or lunar orbit \u2014 by the 2020s. Traveling to and from cislunar space will help NASA and its partners gain the knowledge and experience necessary to venture beyond the moon and into deep space.<\/p>\n<p>A crewed mission to the moon and ultimately deep space would likely involve NASA\u2019s gigantic new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion space capsule. \u201cThis plan challenges our current capabilities in human spaceflight and will benefit from engagement by multiple countries and U.S. industry,\u201d NASA officials said in a statement. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/12942-photos-nasa-giant-rocket-space-launch-system.html\">Photos: NASA\u2019s Space Launch System for Deep Space Flights<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/38287-nasa-russia-deep-space-gateway-partnership.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/38287-nasa-russia-deep-space-gateway-partnership.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos have announced a new partnership for human exploration of the moon and deep space. Both agencies signed a joint statement on cooperation today (Sept. 27) at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. The decision to partner with Russia on human missions to the moon and beyond [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72900","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}