{"id":575250,"date":"2026-03-31T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:44:09","slug":"photos-historic-moments-in-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575250\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Historic moments in space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity\u2019s quest to touch the stars began nearly 70 years ago when the world\u2019s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, was launched into space by the Soviet Union in October 1957.<\/p>\n<p>The first astronauts followed a few years later, circling the Earth and witnessing its bright beauty amid the void of the cosmos. <\/p>\n<p>In 1969, astronauts from NASA\u2019s Apollo 11 mission left boot prints on the surface of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight missions have grown longer over time, breaking old records and setting new ones for distance and duration while pushing the boundaries of what humans can do in space.<\/p>\n<p>Robotic explorers have landed on Mars, embarked on a sightseeing tour of other planets and flown through the furthest reaches of our solar system \u2014 and even dared to venture beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humanity\u2019s quest to touch the stars began nearly 70 years ago when the world\u2019s first artificial satellite, Sputnik&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-575250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}