{"id":131318,"date":"2025-06-18T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131318"},"modified":"2025-06-18T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:00:12","slug":"mengzhou-spacecraft-for-chinas-moon-landing-mission-passes-landmark-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131318","title":{"rendered":"Mengzhou spacecraft for China\u2019s moon-landing mission passes landmark test flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has completed the inaugural test flight of its next-generation Mengzhou crewed spacecraft, executing a critical zero-altitude escape trial at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert.<br \/>\nThe successful test hints at differences in the plans of China and the United States to \u201creturn to the moon\u201d.<br \/>\nDeveloped for China\u2019s 2030 lunar ambitions, the modular Mengzhou spacecraft features two variants: a near-Earth version supporting space station operations with a seven-astronaut&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3314870\/mengzhou-spacecraft-chinas-moon-landing-mission-passes-landmark-test-flight?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has completed the inaugural test flight of its next-generation Mengzhou crewed spacecraft, executing a critical zero-altitude escape trial at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"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\/131318"}],"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=131318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}