{"id":63778,"date":"2024-05-03T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/03\/china-moon-mission-far-side-chang-e-6-launch"},"modified":"2024-05-03T21:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:07:58","slug":"china-to-launch-ambitious-mission-to-far-side-of-the-moon-amid-nasa-space-race-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63778","title":{"rendered":"China launches ambitious mission to far side of the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of the uncrewed Chang\u2019e-6 is part of China\u2019s effort to put a human on the lunar surface by 2030<\/p>\n<p>China has launched a probe to collect samples from the far side of the moon &#8211; in a world first &#8211; as part of its goal to land a human on the lunar surface by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>A rocket carrying the Chang\u2019e-6 lunar probe blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China\u2019s Hainan province just before 5.30 pm (0930 GMT).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/03\/china-moon-mission-far-side-chang-e-6-launch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of the uncrewed Chang\u2019e-6 is part of China\u2019s effort to put a human on the lunar surface by 2030China has launched a probe to collect samples from the far side of the moon &#8211; in a world first &#8211; as part of its goal to land a human on the lunar &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[50,297,295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-space","category-the-moon"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63778","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63794,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63778\/revisions\/63794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}