{"id":665697,"date":"2026-11-03T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/665697\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:46:08","slug":"japans-newest-female-astronaut-wants-to-speak-japanese-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/665697\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s newest female astronaut wants to speak Japanese on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in 1969, every word broadcast from the lunar surface has been spoken in English.<\/p>\n<p>Ayu Yoneda, the Japanese space agency\u2019s youngest astronaut at 31, envisions a different future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m able to go to the moon, I want to share my thoughts in Japanese,\u201d she said in an interview with The Japan Times. \u201cI believe English is the only language that\u2019s ever been spoken there, but I want to speak in Japanese, too \u2014 to connect with people at home and anyone around the world who speaks or is learning our language.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in 1969, every word broadcast from the lunar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[299776,85,46,8010,8245,3442,141,145],"class_list":["post-665697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ayu-yoneda","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jaxa","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}