{"id":85861,"date":"2018-12-15T07:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T15:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/breathing-in-moon-dust-could-be-even-more-toxic-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2018-12-15T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T15:42:25","slug":"breathing-in-moon-dust-could-be-even-more-toxic-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/breathing-in-moon-dust-could-be-even-more-toxic-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"Breathing in Moon Dust Could be Even More Toxic Than We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breathing-in-moon-dust-could-be-even-more-toxic-than-we-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space agencies are <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/three-reasons-moon-mission-nasa\">working hard<\/a> to get humans back to the surface of the Moon. But it\u2019s not exactly the most inviting place.<\/p>\n<p>Astronauts during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 may not have had any health incidents while they were gleefully bouncing around on the lunar surface, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hq.nasa.gov\/alsj\/a11\/A11_PAOMissionReport.html\">NASA mission report<\/a> from the time points out. But they knew that lunar dust wasn\u2019t their friend \u2014 it could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg18625012-000-the-gritty-problem-of-moon-dust\/\">irritate their lungs<\/a>, cause their Moon buggies to overheat \u2014 it even started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/09\/080924191552.htm\">degrading<\/a> their spacesuits.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/breathing-moon-dust-regolith-toxic-cancer\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/breathing-moon-dust-regolith-toxic-cancer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space agencies are working hard to get humans back to the surface of the Moon. But it\u2019s not exactly the most inviting place. Astronauts during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 may not have had any health incidents while they were gleefully bouncing around on the lunar surface, as a NASA mission report from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85861","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}