{"id":11849,"date":"2013-11-30T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11849"},"modified":"2013-11-30T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:49:16","slug":"why-next-man-on-moon-will-be-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11849","title":{"rendered":"Why next man on Moon will be Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Chinese Long March rocket is scheduled to blast off to the Moon on Sunday evening at about 6pm British time carrying a small robotic rover that will touch down on to the lunar surface in about two weeks\u2019 time \u2013 the first soft landing on the Earth\u2019s only natural satellite since 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The take-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan Province marks the latest stage in China\u2019s grand ambitions not just to put a man on Moon by the end of the next decade, but to build a permanent lunar base from which it can plan missions to Mars and beyond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/in-the-footsteps-of-the-us-why-next-man-on-moon-will-be-chinese-8973404.html\">In the footsteps of the US: Why next man on Moon will be Chinese &#8211; Science &#8211; News &#8211; The Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese Long March rocket is scheduled to blast off to the Moon on Sunday evening at about 6pm British time carrying a small robotic rover that will touch down on to the lunar surface in about two weeks\u2019 time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[277,512],"class_list":["post-11849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-china","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11850,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions\/11850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}