{"id":12027,"date":"2021-06-16T03:04:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T03:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12027"},"modified":"2021-06-16T03:04:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T03:04:37","slug":"china-picks-veteran-to-lead-first-space-station-crew-as-lift-off-preparations-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12027","title":{"rendered":"China picks veteran to lead first space station crew, as lift-off preparations begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTwo experienced astronauts are among the first three-man crew for China\u2019s first space station, with final preparations under way for their mission launch on Thursday.The Long March 2F rocket carrying them to the Tianhe module \u2013 the first part of the Tiangong space station \u2013 is expected to lift off at around 9.22am from the Jiuquan satellite launch centre in the Gobi Desert. Propellant refuelling for the rocket was under way on Wednesday morning, according to the China Manned Space Engineering\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3137445\/china-picks-veteran-lead-first-space-station-crew-lift?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTwo experienced astronauts are among the first three-man crew for China\u2019s first space station, with final preparations under way for their mission launch on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}