{"id":3050,"date":"2025-08-07T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-change-6-mission-team-wins-iaf-world-space-award\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:38:13","slug":"chinas-change-6-mission-team-wins-iaf-world-space-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-change-6-mission-team-wins-iaf-world-space-award\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-6 mission team wins IAF World Space Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) has announced that China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-6 mission team has been honored with the 2025 IAF World Space Award (Team category). <\/p>\n<p>As the IAF&#8217;s highest honor, traditionally described as the &#8220;Oscar in space,&#8221; the award is presented to individuals and teams whose outstanding contributions have made a lasting global impact on space science, technology, law, medicine or management. <\/p>\n<p>Launched on May 3, 2024, aboard a Long March-5 rocket, the Chang&#8217;e-6 probe returned to Earth on June 25, 2024, bringing back 1,935.3 grams of precious lunar samples \u2013 humanity&#8217;s first-ever collection from the moon&#8217;s far side. <\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s IAF World Space Award will be presented during the opening ceremony of the 76th International Astronautical Congress, taking place from September 29 to October 3 in Sydney, Australia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) has announced that China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-6 mission team has been honored with the 2025 IAF World Space Award (Team category). As the IAF&#8217;s highest honor, traditionally described as the &#8220;Oscar in space,&#8221; the award is presented to individuals and teams whose outstanding contributions have made a lasting global impact on space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}