{"id":3260,"date":"2013-07-09T02:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T02:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2013-07-09T02:05:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T02:05:36","slug":"hints-of-a-launch-date-for-the-change-3-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3260","title":{"rendered":"Hints of a launch date for the Chang&#8217;e 3 moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sailing plans for the support ships for the Chinese <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chang%27e_3\" target=\"_d\">Chang&#8217;e 3<\/a> lunar rover mission indicate a launch between November 21-23: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zarya.info\/blog\/?p=1288\" target=\"_d\">Does Yuan Wang 5 Sailing Plan Reveal Chang\u2019e 3 Launch Date? &#8211;\u00a0 Zarya.com <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sailing plans for the support ships for the Chinese Chang&#8217;e 3 lunar rover mission indicate a launch between November 21-23: Does Yuan Wang 5 Sailing Plan Reveal Chang\u2019e 3 Launch Date? &#8211;\u00a0 Zarya.com .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-space","category-space-science","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-QA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5464,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5464","url_meta":{"origin":3260,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Chang&#8217;e 3 lunar lander soon to launch","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chinese are expected to launch the\u00a0Chang'e 3\u00a0lunar lander this Sunday, December 1st. 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