{"id":94027,"date":"2019-07-22T14:04:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/one-small-step-what-will-the-moon-look-like-in-50-years"},"modified":"2019-07-22T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:04:28","slug":"one-small-step-what-will-the-moon-look-like-in-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/one-small-step-what-will-the-moon-look-like-in-50-years","title":{"rendered":"One small step: What will the moon look like in 50 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-small-step-what-will-the-moon-look-like-in-50-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The immediate future of the moon will see us build on those first steps taken in July 1969. We\u2019ll send more robotic landers and rovers to conduct experiments on our behalf. China already has another Chang\u2019e mission planned for this year and India, too, will look to land on the surface before the end of the year. In our stead, the robots will search for water and explore the lunar highlands for the resources necessary to establish a more permanent presence.<\/p>\n<p>Looking further ahead, we\u2019ll prepare to truly colonize the moon. We\u2019ll mine the sublunar layers and smelt its rock for metals and oxygen. We\u2019ll live at its poles, erecting inflatable shelters, communications centers and laboratories, and performing experiments not possible from the surface of the Earth. Eventually, we\u2019ll depart for further into the cosmos and find our way to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>But it starts with the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immediate future of the moon will see us build on those first steps taken in July 1969. We\u2019ll send more robotic landers and rovers to conduct experiments on our behalf. China already has another Chang\u2019e mission planned for this year and India, too, will look to land on the surface before the end of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94027","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=94027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}