{"id":85554,"date":"2018-12-06T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/china-preps-for-launch-of-historic-mission-to-moons-far-side-on-friday"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:22:25","slug":"china-preps-for-launch-of-historic-mission-to-moons-far-side-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/china-preps-for-launch-of-historic-mission-to-moons-far-side-on-friday","title":{"rendered":"China Preps for Launch of Historic Mission to Moon\u2019s Far Side on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-preps-for-launch-of-historic-mission-to-moons-far-side-on-friday2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is getting set to launch the first-ever surface mission to the moon\u2019s far side.<\/p>\n<p>The robotic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40715-change-4-mission.html\">Chang\u2019e 4 mission<\/a> is scheduled to launch atop a Long March 3B rocket on Friday (Dec. 7) at around 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT; 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 8 local China time).<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, Chang\u2019e 4\u2019s lander-rover duo will touch down within the moon\u2019s South Pole\u2010Aitken (SPA) basin after a 27-day flight, then study both the surface and subsurface of this region. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/27670-china-moon-missions-explained-infographic.html\">China\u2019s Moon Missions Explained (Infographic)<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42647-china-moon-far-side-mission-change4-ready.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/42647-china-moon-far-side-mission-change4-ready.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is getting set to launch the first-ever surface mission to the moon\u2019s far side. The robotic Chang\u2019e 4 mission is scheduled to launch atop a Long March 3B rocket on Friday (Dec. 7) at around 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT; 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 8 local China time). If all goes according to plan, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85554","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}