{"id":85654,"date":"2018-12-10T01:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T09:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/nasa-administrator-the-us-is-returning-to-the-surface-of-the-moon-and-were-doing-it-sooner-than-you-think"},"modified":"2018-12-10T01:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T09:34:54","slug":"nasa-administrator-the-us-is-returning-to-the-surface-of-the-moon-and-were-doing-it-sooner-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/nasa-administrator-the-us-is-returning-to-the-surface-of-the-moon-and-were-doing-it-sooner-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"NASA administrator: \u2018The US is returning to the surface of the moon, and we\u2019re doing it sooner than you think!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-administrator-the-us-is-returning-to-the-surface-of-the-moon-and-were-doing-it-sooner-than-you-think2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A big announcement from NASA about landing on the moon is coming on Thursday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>The last time NASA landed a spacecraft on the moon was in December 1972.<\/li>\n<li>The US space agency said it\u2019s about to announce \u201cmoon partnerships\u201d with American companies to return to the lunar surface.<\/li>\n<li>NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine claimed the new moon missions will occur \u201csooner than you think!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>NASA is withholding details of the announcement until Thursday afternoon, but Business Insider has independently confirmed some information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If NASA\u2019s <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-insight-mars-probe-landing-successful-science-mission-2018-11 > stunning landing<\/a> of a car-sized robot on Mars didn\u2019t already whet your appetite for space exploration this week, mark your calendar for 2 p.m. EST on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when NASA plans to give an update about a program that aims to land privately developed spacecraft on the moon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-return-moon-mission-commercial-companies-announcement-2018-11\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-return-moon-mission-com...018&#45;11<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big announcement from NASA about landing on the moon is coming on Thursday. The last time NASA landed a spacecraft on the moon was in December 1972. The US space agency said it\u2019s about to announce \u201cmoon partnerships\u201d with American companies to return to the lunar surface. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine claimed the new [\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-85654","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\/85654","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=85654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}