{"id":426138,"date":"2018-01-11T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ab9dfd5fa650c8bae1fc3e9240227d5a"},"modified":"2018-01-11T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T13:20:08","slug":"the-surprising-scale-of-chinas-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=426138","title":{"rendered":"The surprising scale of China&#8217;s space program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that China&#8217;s growth in the past few decades has been reflected in space. In addition to the country&#8217;s growing economic power and international influence, it has also made some very impressive strides in terms of its space program. This includes the development of the Long March rocket family, the deployment of their first space station, and the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) \u2013 aka. the Chang&#8217;e program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that China&#8217;s growth in the past few decades has been reflected in space. In addition to the country&#8217;s growing economic power and international influence, it has also made some very impressive strides in terms of its space program. This includes the development of the Long March rocket family, the deployment of their first space station, and the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) &ndash; aka. the Chang&#8217;e program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426139,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426138\/revisions\/426139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}