{"id":89926,"date":"2019-04-24T15:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/china-to-build-moon-station-in-about-10-years"},"modified":"2019-04-24T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:02:37","slug":"china-to-build-moon-station-in-about-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/china-to-build-moon-station-in-about-10-years","title":{"rendered":"China to build moon station in \u2018about 10 years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-to-build-moon-station-in-about-10-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official.<\/p>\n<p>China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the first nation to land a rover on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/far+side+of+the+moon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">far side of the moon<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n<p>It now plans to build a scientific <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/research+station\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">research station<\/a> on the moon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/south+pole\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">south pole<\/a> within the next 10 years, China National Space Administration head Zhang Kejian said during a speech marking \u201cSpace Day\u201d, the official Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-china-moon-station-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official. China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the first nation to land a rover [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89926","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}