{"id":33185,"date":"2021-06-17T08:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/first-astronauts-blast-off-for-china-new-space-station-tiangong"},"modified":"2021-06-17T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:52:08","slug":"first-astronauts-to-blast-off-for-chinas-new-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33185","title":{"rendered":"Chinese astronauts reach new space station for three-month mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shenzhou-12 carrying three astronauts docks with Tiangong space station after seven-hour flight<\/p>\n<p>Astronauts on board China\u2019s first crewed spacecraft in nearly five years have reached the new Tiangong space station after blasting off from the Gobi desert.<\/p>\n<p>A Long March-2F rocket launched the three astronauts in the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, which docked<strong> <\/strong>with Tianhe \u2013 the main section of the Tiangong station \u2013 just over seven hours later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/first-astronauts-blast-off-for-china-new-space-station-tiangong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenzhou-12 carrying three astronauts docks with Tiangong space station after seven-hour flightAstronauts on board China\u2019s first crewed spacecraft in nearly five years have reached the new Tiangong space station after blasting off from the Gobi desert&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,297,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/33185","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33211,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33185\/revisions\/33211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}