{"id":4090,"date":"2016-03-23T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-sets-april-24-as-national-day-of-space-flight\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:30:08","slug":"china-sets-april-24-as-national-day-of-space-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-sets-april-24-as-national-day-of-space-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"China Sets April 24 as National Day of Space Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Mar. 23 (China Space News) \u2014 The Chinese government has approved a motion to celebrate a National Day of Space Flight on April 24 every year starting from 2016, the media reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of China&#8217;s spaceflight development.<\/p>\n<p>On April 24, 1970, China launched its first man-made earth satellite, Dongfanghong-1, making China the fifth country then to launch a domestically produced satellite using domestically produced rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The other four countries were Russia, the US, France and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In the 60 years, China has developed two bombs and one satellite project, mastered manned space flight, launched a lunar exploration project and generally achieved rapid growth in space technology.<\/p>\n<p>The day is intended to celebrate China&#8217;s aerospace achievements, its scientists and generate interest among youth.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Mar. 23 (China Space News) \u2014 The Chinese government has approved a motion to celebrate a National Day of Space Flight on April 24 every year starting from 2016, the media reported on Tuesday. The year 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of China&#8217;s spaceflight development. On April 24, 1970, China launched [&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-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090"}],"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=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}