{"id":33694,"date":"2021-07-04T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T04:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/astronauts-at-chinas-new-space-station-conduct-first-spacewalk"},"modified":"2021-07-04T18:31:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:31:04","slug":"astronauts-at-chinas-new-space-station-conduct-first-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33694","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts at China\u2019s new space station conduct first spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two astronauts work for seven hours outside Tiangong station, in first of two spacewalks planned for mission<\/p>\n<p>Chinese astronauts have performed the country\u2019s first tandem spacewalk, working for seven hours on the outside of the new Tiangong station in orbit around Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Tiangong\u2019s construction is a significant step in China\u2019s ambitious space programme. China has previously landed a rover on Mars and sent probes to the moon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/astronauts-at-chinas-new-space-station-conduct-first-spacewalk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two astronauts work for seven hours outside Tiangong station, in first of two spacewalks planned for missionChinese astronauts have performed the country\u2019s first tandem spacewalk, working for seven hours on the outside of the new Tiangong station in or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"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-33694","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\/33694","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\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33706,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33694\/revisions\/33706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}