{"id":88388,"date":"2019-03-05T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/israels-first-moon-mission-spacecraft-sends-back-selfie"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:22:27","slug":"israels-first-moon-mission-spacecraft-sends-back-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/israels-first-moon-mission-spacecraft-sends-back-selfie","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s first moon mission spacecraft sends back selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israels-first-moon-mission-spacecraft-sends-back-selfie3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Israeli spacecraft on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/22\/israel-first-lunar-lander-blasts-into-space-florida-spacex-beresheet\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"\">maiden mission to the moon<\/a> has sent its first selfie back to Earth, mission chiefs said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The image showing part of the Beresheet spacecraft with Earth in the background was beamed to mission control in Yehud, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" class=\"\">Israel<\/a> \u2013 23,360 miles (37,600km) away, the project\u2019s lead partners said.<\/p>\n<p>The partners, NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries, launched the unmanned Beresheet \u2013 Hebrew for Genesis \u2013 from Cape Canaveral in Florida on 22 February.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/mar\/05\/israels-first-moon-mission-spacecraft-beresheet-sends-back-selfie\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/mar\/05\/israels-firs...ack-selfie<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli spacecraft on its maiden mission to the moon has sent its first selfie back to Earth, mission chiefs said on Tuesday. The image showing part of the Beresheet spacecraft with Earth in the background was beamed to mission control in Yehud, Israel \u2013 23,360 miles (37,600km) away, the project\u2019s lead partners said. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88388","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\/88388","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=88388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}