{"id":92494,"date":"2019-06-23T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/this-bizarre-device-will-help-rescue-injured-astronauts-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:22:23","slug":"this-bizarre-device-will-help-rescue-injured-astronauts-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/this-bizarre-device-will-help-rescue-injured-astronauts-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"This Bizarre Device Will Help Rescue Injured Astronauts on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-bizarre-device-will-help-rescue-injured-astronauts-on-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/As_above_so_below_lunar_rescue_device_tested_underwater\">tested out<\/a> a device that\u2019s meant to assist in astronaut rescue missions on the surface of the Moon. The strange contraption, dubbed the Lunar Evacuation System Assembly, is a pyramid-like structure that can be operated by a single astronaut to extricate a fallen comrade \u2014 the world\u2019s first, according to the ESA.<\/p>\n<p>The gadget is meant to save incapacitated astronauts by lifting them onto a mobile stretcher. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/As_above_so_below_lunar_rescue_device_tested_underwater\">an ESA statement<\/a>, the device can be \u201ctransported like a golf caddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way an astronaut could carry their fallen crewmate over their shoulder while wearing an [extravehicular activity] EVA suit,\u201d said ESA head of spacewalk training Herv\u00e9 Stevenin in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) just tested out a device that\u2019s meant to assist in astronaut rescue missions on the surface of the Moon. The strange contraption, dubbed the Lunar Evacuation System Assembly, is a pyramid-like structure that can be operated by a single astronaut to extricate a fallen comrade \u2014 the world\u2019s first, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92494","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=92494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}