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
The first astronauts followed a few years later, circling the Earth and witnessing its bright beauty amid the void of the cosmos. <\/p>\n
In 1969, astronauts from NASA\u2019s Apollo 11 mission left boot prints on the surface of the moon.<\/p>\n
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
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-358342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}