{"id":31563,"date":"2021-04-29T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T04:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/29\/china-launches-first-module-of-new-space-station"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T04:46:49","slug":"china-launches-first-module-of-new-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31563","title":{"rendered":"China launches first module of new space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The space station is expected to become fully operational in 2022 after about 10 missions to bring up more parts and assemble them in orbit<\/p>\n<p>China has launched the first module of its new space station, a milestone in Beijing\u2019s ambitious plan to place a permanent human presence in space.<\/p>\n<p>The Tianhe or \u201cHeavenly Harmony\u201d unmanned core module, containing living quarters for three crew, was launched from Wenchang in China\u2019s Hainan province on a Long-March 5B rocket on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/29\/china-launches-first-module-of-new-space-station\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The space station is expected to become fully operational in 2022 after about 10 missions to bring up more parts and assemble them in orbitChina has launched the first module of its new space station, a milestone in Beijing\u2019s ambitious plan to place a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,299,297,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-science","category-space","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31564,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31563\/revisions\/31564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}