{"id":150620,"date":"2026-04-30T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150620"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:00:13","slug":"chinas-tiangong-space-station-to-double-in-size-as-nasa-phases-out-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150620","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Tiangong space station to double in size as Nasa phases out ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has confirmed plans to expand its space station, potentially more than doubling in size to meet growing scientific demand and expand international cooperation.<br \/>\nThe Tiangong and the International Space Station (ISS) are the only space stations operating in low Earth orbit.<br \/>\nThe ISS, led by Nasa and built with contributions from 15 countries, is the biggest structure in space and has been a laboratory for more than 3,000 experiments.<br \/>\nNasa plans to retire the ISS in early 2031, using a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3352049\/chinas-tiangong-space-station-double-size-nasa-phases-out-iss?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 confirmed plans to expand its space station, potentially more than doubling in size to meet growing scientific demand and expand international cooperation.&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\/150620"}],"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=150620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}