{"id":3302,"date":"2026-04-13T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:30:07","slug":"u-s-launches-first-crewed-moon-mission-in-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3302","title":{"rendered":"U.S. launches first crewed moon mission in 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><video src=\"https:\/\/videous.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-04-03\/U-S-launches-first-crewed-moon-mission-in-50-years-1M1IQeCkTuw\/video\/wu_1jl7ntn981l13gviig2k8p1i4t3gk\/wu_1jl7ntn981l13gviig2k8p1i4t3gk.m3u8\" poster=\"https:\/\/videous.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-04-03\/U-S-launches-first-crewed-moon-mission-in-50-years-1M1IQeCkTuw\/video\/wu_1jl7ntn981l13gviig2k8p1i4t3gk\/wu_1jl7ntn981l13gviig2k8p1i4t3gk.jpg\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The United States has launched its first crewed mission toward the moon in more than 50 years. Four astronauts lifted off Wednesday evening, April 1, aboard NASA&#8217;s most powerful rocket, beginning a ten-day journey that will take them farther from Earth than any humans have traveled since the Apollo era. CGTN&#8217;s Nitza Soledad P\u00e9rez reports.<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>For more, check out our exclusive content on <\/strong><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgtnnow.com\/browse\"><i><strong>CGTN Now<\/strong><\/i><\/a><i><strong> and subscribe to our weekly newsletter, <\/strong><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/cgtnamerica\/china-newsletter-landing-page\"><i><strong>The China Report<\/strong><\/i><\/a><i><strong>.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has launched its first crewed mission toward the moon in more than 50 years. Four astronauts lifted off Wednesday evening, April 1, aboard NASA&#8217;s most powerful rocket, beginning a ten-day journey that will take them farther from Earth than any humans have traveled since the Apollo era. CGTN&#8217;s Nitza Soledad P\u00e9rez reports. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}