{"id":75581,"date":"2018-01-26T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/chinese-volunteers-spend-200-days-on-virtual-moon-base"},"modified":"2018-01-26T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T15:42:49","slug":"chinese-volunteers-spend-200-days-on-virtual-moon-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/chinese-volunteers-spend-200-days-on-virtual-moon-base","title":{"rendered":"Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual \u2018moon base\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-volunteers-spend-200-days-on-virtual-moon-base.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a \u201clunar lab\u201d in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Four students crammed into a 160-square-metre (1,720-square-foot) cabin called \u201cYuegong-1\u201d\u2014Lunar Palace\u2014on the campus of Beihang University, testing the limits of humans\u2019 ability to live in a self-contained space, the official Xinhua news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteers lived in the sealed lab to simulate a long-term space mission with no input from the outside world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-01-chinese-volunteers-days-virtual-moon.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;01-chinese-volunteers-days-virtual-moon.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a \u201clunar lab\u201d in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon. Four students crammed into a 160-square-metre (1,720-square-foot) cabin called \u201cYuegong-1\u201d\u2014Lunar Palace\u2014on the campus of Beihang University, testing the limits of humans\u2019 ability to live in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75581","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}