{"id":146270,"date":"2026-02-16T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146270"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:00:07","slug":"steve-durst-the-us-citizen-space-diplomat-who-reached-out-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146270","title":{"rendered":"Steve Durst \u2013 the US citizen space diplomat who reached out to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSteve Durst, a US space entrepreneur who spent decades building rare bridges with China\u2019s space sector despite restrictions on official cooperation, has died aged 82.<br \/>\nDurst, who founded the non-profit International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA), was publishing on China\u2019s astronaut training as early as 1980, when the country\u2019s human space flight ambitions were still little known to the outside world.<br \/>\nHe died at his home in California last month, shortly after attending a workshop in Chiang&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3343571\/steve-durst-us-citizen-space-diplomat-who-reached-out-china?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 PostSteve Durst, a US space entrepreneur who spent decades building rare bridges with China\u2019s space sector despite restrictions on official cooperation, has died aged&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\/146270"}],"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=146270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}