{"id":2815,"date":"2019-09-30T13:13:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T13:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonings.com\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2019-09-30T13:13:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T13:13:32","slug":"from-a-hot-desert-to-a-cold-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"From a hot desert to a cold one"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2816\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PRI_86779683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PRI_86779683.jpg 540w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PRI_86779683-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PRI_86779683-415x300.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On 27 September 2019, Hazza Al Mansouri became the first Emirati to go to space. For the National in Dubai, podcast host Suhail Rather rang around for opinions on the UAE space programme and where it\u2019s headed. With a human colony on Mars planned for 2117 and a probe headed for the red planet next year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/uae\/podcasts\/beyond-the-headlines-hazza-al-mansouri-and-the-uae-s-space-ambitions-1.915702\">we chatted about what Hazza\u2019s mission means for the local population<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 September 2019, Hazza Al Mansouri became the first Emirati to go to space. For the National in Dubai, podcast host Suhail Rather rang around for opinions on the UAE space programme and where it\u2019s headed. With a human &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=2815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[74,597,738],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scrapbook","tag-podcast","tag-space-exploration","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}