{"id":788485,"date":"2026-07-09T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788485\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:04:10","slug":"giant-leap-moon-base-research-poised-to-transform-building-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788485\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Leap: Moon Base Research Poised to Transform Building on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1988, Isaac Asimov\u2014the science fiction pioneer who coined the term \u201crobotics\u201d\u2014predicted that manned Mars expeditions would be under way by 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Asimov\u2019s prediction may be a little premature, his dream of humans living somewhere other than Earth is gaining ground 57 years after humankind set foot on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Technological advances are converging with a push to create a permanent lunar base to serve as a stepping stone to Mars as well as support the exploitation of the Moon\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1988, Isaac Asimov\u2014the science fiction pioneer who coined the term \u201crobotics\u201d\u2014predicted that manned Mars expeditions would be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3443,12771,64,63,11758,371966,371967,16553,5443,337,128,1124,49685],"class_list":["post-788485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-adelaide","tag-ai-automation","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-construction","tag-construction-technology","tag-contech","tag-development","tag-engineering","tag-research","tag-science","tag-south-australia","tag-technology-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788485","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=788485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}