{"id":79177,"date":"2018-05-30T02:22:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T09:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/china-invites-international-researchers-to-do-science-on-its-future-space-station"},"modified":"2018-05-30T02:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T09:22:51","slug":"china-invites-international-researchers-to-do-science-on-its-future-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/china-invites-international-researchers-to-do-science-on-its-future-space-station","title":{"rendered":"China invites international researchers to do science on its future space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-invites-international-researchers-to-do-science-on-its-future-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the end of 2022, China hopes to have its biggest space station yet orbiting around Earth, and the country\u2019s space agency wants other nations to use it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unoosa.org\/oosa\/en\/informationfor\/media\/united-nations-and-china-invite-applications-to-conduct-experiments-on-board-chinas-space-station.html\">China is inviting all members of the United Nations to submit applications<\/a> to fly experiments on board the future habitat, dubbed the China Space Station. It\u2019s a major step toward international cooperation for China and its space program, which has mostly relied on domestic hardware and capabilities in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe China Space Station belongs not only to China, but also to the world,\u201d Shi Zhongjun, China\u2019s ambassador to the UN, said in a statement about the initiative. As a guide for the decision, Zhongjun cited the 50-year-old Outer Space Treaty, which maintains that the exploration of space should be peaceful and benefit all countries.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/5\/29\/17404896\/china-space-station-international-cooperation-united-nations\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/5\/29\/17404896\/china-space-stat...ed-nations<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of 2022, China hopes to have its biggest space station yet orbiting around Earth, and the country\u2019s space agency wants other nations to use it. China is inviting all members of the United Nations to submit applications to fly experiments on board the future habitat, dubbed the China Space Station. It\u2019s a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,224,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-habitats","category-science","category-space","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79177","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}