{"id":6639,"date":"2024-12-18T06:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/china-says-astronauts-completed-nine-hour-spacewalk-breaking-us-record\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T06:01:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T06:01:01","slug":"china-says-astronauts-completed-nine-hour-spacewalk-breaking-us-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/china-says-astronauts-completed-nine-hour-spacewalk-breaking-us-record\/","title":{"rendered":"China says astronauts completed nine-hour spacewalk, breaking US record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            China says two of its astronauts completed a nine-hour spacewalk Tuesday, a figure that beats the US-held record for the world\u2019s longest spacewalk set in 2001, in the latest milestone in the country\u2019s ambitious space program.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, crew members of the Shenzhou-19 spaceflight, wrapped the nine-hour extravehicular activity, better known as a spacewalk, just before 10 p.m. Beijing time, according to the China Manned Space Agency.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The previous record of eight hours and 56 minutes was set by US astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms on March 12, 2001, according to NASA.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            China has mounted a significant effort to establish itself as a major player in space \u2013 a domain that nations, including the United States, are increasingly looking to not only for scientific benefit, but also with an eye to resources and national security.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The China National Space Administration has in recent years carried out a series of increasingly complex robotic lunar missions, including the first-ever return of lunar samples from the far side of the moon earlier this year.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            It has also been angling to become the second country, after the US, to land on the moon, and has unveiled a specially designed spacesuit for the mission, set to take place by 2030.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China says two of its astronauts completed a nine-hour spacewalk Tuesday, a figure that beats the US-held record for the world\u2019s longest spacewalk set in 2001, in the latest milestone in the country\u2019s ambitious space program. Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, crew members of the Shenzhou-19 spaceflight, wrapped the nine-hour extravehicular activity, better known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}