{"id":88291,"date":"2019-03-01T21:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T05:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/today-in-space-history-a-space-pioneer-embarks-on-a-historic-mission"},"modified":"2019-03-01T21:43:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T05:43:49","slug":"today-in-space-history-a-space-pioneer-embarks-on-a-historic-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/today-in-space-history-a-space-pioneer-embarks-on-a-historic-mission","title":{"rendered":"Today in Space History: A space Pioneer embarks on a historic mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/today-in-space-history-a-space-pioneer-embarks-on-a-historic-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As it travels through space, Pioneer 10 carries a unique payload: a 6.0 \u00d7 9.0 in gold-anodized aluminum plaque with images of two nude human figures (one male and one female) and information on the probe\u2019s origin. It was designed by astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, just in case intelligent life finds the spacecraft. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/flipfacts?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD0wUDMsAdqZKG2ymNQ_qEYMNmZp_L-cANbknfweVBE6L7l92kV4vJE2LP8AK3kbjhdKjG-xah_3yBMTKef1kA86mhBdgGrn-PBACq0W1QmW_r82CXRaW3ou3v16oZ3NRK8DfwNkLyKYOxhoDnYmDc2GdcBsfJgfwIRk6umZtep6w_EzY_W-ecZebBeXKpZyx3IMd7F7UN7VeT9lzvqs_8If9YnlTGRb3yGhliw9kNJ0myZdaur1sfDyV-dlMMgpG4ijl9gNTYGlRHJrmrLfpNIZeARyIF-tWwmivv7gUeVJEb0Mpk8ZCgQRLqLyNH9_3in-UV16G4QyyUeESx5Zv0&__tn__=%2ANK-R\" data-ft=\"{\u201d type\u201d:104,\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d}\"> #FlipFacts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FlipScience\/photos\/a.466183523911708\/497414414121952\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FlipScience\/photos\/a.466183523911708\/497414414121952<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it travels through space, Pioneer 10 carries a unique payload: a 6.0 \u00d7 9.0 in gold-anodized aluminum plaque with images of two nude human figures (one male and one female) and information on the probe\u2019s origin. It was designed by astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, just in case intelligent life finds the spacecraft. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88291","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=88291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}