{"id":93217,"date":"2019-07-07T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-moon-in-2069-top-space-scientists-share-their-visions-for-lunar-lifestyles"},"modified":"2019-07-07T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:02:26","slug":"the-moon-in-2069-top-space-scientists-share-their-visions-for-lunar-lifestyles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-moon-in-2069-top-space-scientists-share-their-visions-for-lunar-lifestyles","title":{"rendered":"The moon in 2069: Top space scientists share their visions for lunar lifestyles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Up1nBE_8MEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LAUSANNE, Switzerland \u2014 Fifty years ago this month, NASA\u2019s Apollo 11 mission transformed the idea of putting people on the moon from science fiction to historical fact. Not much has changed on the moon since Apollo, but if the visions floated by leading space scientists from the U.S., Europe, Russia and China come to pass, your grandchildren might be firing up lunar barbecues in 2069.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely in 50 years, there will be more tourism on the moon,\u201d Anatoli Petrukovich, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iki.rssi.ru\/eng\/structure.htm\">Space Research Institute<\/a>, said here today during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsj2019.eu\/\">World Conference of Science Journalists.<\/a> \u201cThe moon will just look like a resort, as a backyard for grilling some meat or whatever else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ieee-aess.org\/contact\/ji-wu\">Wu Ji<\/a>, former director general of the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 National Space Science Center, agreed that moon tourism could well be a thing in 2069.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUSANNE, Switzerland \u2014 Fifty years ago this month, NASA\u2019s Apollo 11 mission transformed the idea of putting people on the moon from science fiction to historical fact. Not much has changed on the moon since Apollo, but if the visions floated by leading space scientists from the U.S., Europe, Russia and China come to pass, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93217","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}