{"id":87878,"date":"2019-02-18T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/first-private-israel-lunar-mission-to-be-launched-this-week"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:03:29","slug":"first-private-israel-lunar-mission-to-be-launched-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/first-private-israel-lunar-mission-to-be-launched-this-week","title":{"rendered":"First private Israel lunar mission to be launched this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-private-israel-lunar-mission-to-be-launched-this-week2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) \u2014 A nonprofit Israeli consortium said Monday that it hopes to make history this week by launching the first private aircraft to land on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries told a news conference that the landing craft \u2014 dubbed \u201cBeresheet,\u201d or Genesis \u2014 will take off from Florida, propelled by a SpaceX Falcon rocket on its weekslong voyage to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>The launch is scheduled late Thursday in the United States, early Friday in Israel. It had been originally slated for last December.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/76bc9dbc1b1e4d8b94afa919468177bb\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/76bc9dbc1b1e4d8b94afa919468177bb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) \u2014 A nonprofit Israeli consortium said Monday that it hopes to make history this week by launching the first private aircraft to land on the moon. SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries told a news conference that the landing craft \u2014 dubbed \u201cBeresheet,\u201d or Genesis \u2014 will take off from Florida, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87878","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}