{"id":9446,"date":"2013-12-15T18:13:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2013-12-15T18:13:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:13:20","slug":"china-lands-rover-on-moons-surface-a-first-for-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/china-lands-rover-on-moons-surface-a-first-for-the-country","title":{"rendered":"China lands rover on moon\u2019s surface, a first for the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/author\/9000240\/Sharon+Gaudin\" rel=\"author\">Sharon Gaudin<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"first_paragraph\"><span class=\"source\">Computerworld -<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9244472\/With_look_ahead_to_manned_mission_China_launches_lunar_rover\">China\u2019s lunar probe<\/a>, and the moon rover it carried, landed successfully Saturday night, marking a major accomplishment for the country\u2019s space efforts.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time a spacecraft from China has landed on an extraterrestrial body. China becomes the third country, after the United States and Russia, to land a spacecraft on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-3 craft lifted off early on Dec. 2 on top of an enhanced Long March-3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9244814\/China_lands_rover_on_moon_s_surface_a_first_for_the_country?taxonomyId=18\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld \u2014 China\u2019s lunar probe, and the moon rover it carried, landed successfully Saturday night, marking a major accomplishment for the country\u2019s space efforts. This is the first time a spacecraft from China has landed on an extraterrestrial body. China becomes the third country, after the United States and Russia, to land [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}