{"id":85716,"date":"2018-12-11T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T23:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/china-launches-1st-mission-to-land-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon"},"modified":"2018-12-11T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T23:22:23","slug":"china-launches-1st-mission-to-land-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/china-launches-1st-mission-to-land-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"China Launches 1st Mission to Land on the Far Side of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-launches-1st-mission-to-land-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first-ever surface mission to the far side of the moon is underway.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s robotic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40715-change-4-mission.html\">Chang\u2019e 4 spacecraft<\/a> streaked away from Earth today (Dec. 7), launching atop a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at about 1:23 p.m. EST (1823 GMT; 2:23 a.m. <strong> <\/strong>on Dec. 8 local China time).<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, Chang\u2019e 4 will make history\u2019s first landing on the lunar far side sometime in early January. The mission, which consists of a stationary lander and a rover, will perform a variety of science work and plant a flag for humanity in a region that remains largely unexplored to date. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42676-china-moon-far-side-chang-e-4-mission-pictures.html\">China\u2019s Chang\u2019e 4 Moon Far Side Mission in Pictures<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42665-china-launches-moon-far-side-lander-rover.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/42665-china-launches-moon-far-side-lander-rover.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-ever surface mission to the far side of the moon is underway. China\u2019s robotic Chang\u2019e 4 spacecraft streaked away from Earth today (Dec. 7), launching atop a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at about 1:23 p.m. EST (1823 GMT; 2:23 a.m. on Dec. 8 local China time). If all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85716","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=85716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}