{"id":624018,"date":"2019-07-15T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624018"},"modified":"2019-07-15T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:15:55","slug":"50-years-after-apollo-11-moon-landing-nasa-sets-its-sights-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624018","title":{"rendered":"50 Years After Apollo 11 Moon Landing, NASA Sets Its Sights On Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_7378copy_wide-446b1cb9fdb48b758fd3fca73ab7929b24f257a2.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Bridenstine became NASA administrator in April 2018. He says that before the space agency can send humans to Mars, it has to get them back to the moon.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the world looks back at the Apollo mission, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine looks ahead to the &#8220;moon shot&#8221; of the modern era: landing a human on Mars. <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Olivia Falcigno\/NPR)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/npr-rss-pixel-15.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/15\/741281881\/50-years-after-apollo-11-moon-landing-nasa-sets-its-sights-on-mars?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50 Years After Apollo 11 Moon Landing, NASA Sets Its Sights On Mars<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world looks back at the Apollo mission, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine looks ahead to the &#8220;moon shot&#8221; of the modern era: landing a human on Mars. (Image credit:&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624018","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624018\/revisions"}],"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=624018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}