{"id":8681,"date":"2022-08-22T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2022-08-22T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:33:06","slug":"how-americans-feel-about-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8681","title":{"rendered":"How Americans Feel About Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/articles-reports\/2021\/07\/16\/americans-support-sending-astronauts-moon-and-mars\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a July 2021 poll from YouGov\/The Economist<\/a>, a majority of Americans said the U.S. should send astronauts to the moon and Mars. This was true across political parties, with slim majorities for Democrats, Republicans and independents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Americans are on the same page about funding space exploration, too. About a third of Democrats, Republicans and independents said government funding of space exploration should be kept the same, and about 40 percent of each group said funding should be increased.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-fivethirtyeight\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BIlE98nmwG\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/one-of-the-few-things-americans-agree-on-space-is-cool\/\">How Americans Feel About Space<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How Americans Feel About Space&#8221; &#8212; FiveThirtyEight\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/one-of-the-few-things-americans-agree-on-space-is-cool\/embed\/#?secret=K9ArvR8yEZ#?secret=BIlE98nmwG\" data-secret=\"BIlE98nmwG\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a July 2021 poll from YouGov\/The Economist, a majority of Americans said the U.S. should send astronauts to the moon and Mars. This was true across political parties, with slim majorities for Democrats, Republicans and independents. <\/p>\n<p>Most Americans are on the same page about funding space exploration, too. About a third of Democrats, Republicans and independents said government funding of space exploration should be kept the same, and about 40 percent of each group said funding should be increased.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[954],"class_list":["post-8681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8682,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions\/8682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}