{"id":73736,"date":"2017-11-12T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T08:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/a-baby-could-be-born-on-the-moon-in-a-few-decades"},"modified":"2017-11-12T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T08:02:29","slug":"a-baby-could-be-born-on-the-moon-in-a-few-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/a-baby-could-be-born-on-the-moon-in-a-few-decades","title":{"rendered":"A baby could be born on the moon in a few decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-baby-could-be-born-on-the-moon-in-a-few-decades.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Donald Trump\u2019s inaugural speech last January, lost amidst his description of \u201cAmerican carnage,\u201d was a more optimistic promise that the country was \u201cready to unlock the mysteries of space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if the line was anything more than political lip service, but one thing is certain: The quest for the stars is racing forward regardless of who occupies the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>A once impossible but now plausible scenario can be found in Andy Weir\u2019s new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Artemis-Novel-Andy-Weir\/dp\/0553448129\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510353159&sr=1-1&keywords=artemis&tag=lifeboatfound-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis<\/a>\u201d (Crown, Nov. 14), which is set in the world\u2019s first lunar city. The action takes place in the year 2080 in Artemis, a city with a population of 2,000 that\u2019s part tourist attraction, part housing complex and part mining operation. The protagonist, Jazz Bashara, whom Rosario Dawson, the audiobook\u2019s narrator describes as \u201csuper MacGyver,\u201d is a young porter who runs a small smuggling operation on the side, obtaining contraband, such as alcohol, for the colony\u2019s population. When one of Jazz\u2019s wealthy clients offers her a chance to make the potential score of a lifetime, the young woman finds herself in over her head and caught up in a far-reaching conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/11\/11\/a-baby-could-be-born-on-the-moon-in-a-few-decades\/\">http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/11\/11\/a-baby-could-be-born-on-the-moon-in-a-few-decades\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Donald Trump\u2019s inaugural speech last January, lost amidst his description of \u201cAmerican carnage,\u201d was a more optimistic promise that the country was \u201cready to unlock the mysteries of space.\u201d It\u2019s unclear if the line was anything more than political lip service, but one thing is certain: The quest for the stars is racing forward [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73736","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}