{"id":90539,"date":"2019-05-09T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/jeff-bezos-unveils-lunar-lander-to-take-astronauts-to-the-moon-by-2024"},"modified":"2019-05-09T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T01:03:09","slug":"jeff-bezos-unveils-lunar-lander-to-take-astronauts-to-the-moon-by-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/jeff-bezos-unveils-lunar-lander-to-take-astronauts-to-the-moon-by-2024","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos unveils lunar lander to take astronauts to the moon by 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-unveils-lunar-lander-to-take-astronauts-to-the-moon-by-20242.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vehicle is going to the moon,\u201d Bezos said during an invite-only presentation to media and space industry executives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were given a gift \u2014 this nearby body called the moon,\u201d Bezos said. He added that the moon is a good place to begin manufacturing in space due to its lower gravity than the Earth. Getting resources from the moon \u201ctakes 24 times less energy to get it off the surface compared to the Earth,\u201d Bezos said, and \u201cthat is a huge lever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Moon lander can bring 3.6 metric tons to the lunar surface, according to Bezos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/05\/09\/jeff-bezos-unveils-blue-moon-lunar-lander.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>\u201cThis vehicle is going to the moon,\u201d Bezos said during an invite-only presentation to media and space industry executives. \u201cWe were given a gift \u2014 this nearby body called the moon,\u201d Bezos said. He added that the moon is a good place to begin manufacturing in space due to its lower gravity than the Earth. [\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-90539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90539","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=90539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}