{"id":266486,"date":"2025-07-16T11:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266486\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:33:11","slug":"the-handshake-in-orbit-that-made-the-international-space-station-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266486\/","title":{"rendered":"The handshake in orbit that made the International Space Station possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ben-Itzhak studies what she has termed &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/space-blocs-the-future-of-international-cooperation-in-space-is-splitting-along-lines-of-power-on-earth-180221\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"noopener\">space blocs<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 the emerging groupings of space nations. Right now, as countries plan a return to the Moon, it looks like the US and Russians will soon go their separate ways. Russia will likely side with China, and Western nations \u2013 including Europe and Canada \u2013 will coalesce around the US. But there are also other blocs emerging, including Arab, African and Asian nations (India, for example, is fast becoming a significant space power).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben-Itzhak studies what she has termed &#8220;space blocs&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 the emerging groupings of space nations. Right now, as countries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114862699582473733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}