{"id":1847,"date":"2026-01-10T00:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:30:58","slug":"to-the-moon-and-back-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"To the Moon and Back &#8211; 1946!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11628\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11628\" class=\"wp-image-11628 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Project-Diana-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Diana<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Project Diana was conducted in 1946 by the Army Signal Corps<\/strong>. \u00a0The group sent radio signals to the moon and recorded the reflected signals (about 468,000 miles to the moon and back). The signals took 2.5 seconds to return to earth. Today called EME (Earth \u2013 Moon \u2013 Earth), the program started the space program because it was the first time humans sent something beyond the earth\u2019s atmosphere. Project Diana was named after the Roman goddess Diana, the goddess of the hunt and of the moon. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/war\/articles\/project-diana-moon-and-soviet-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Diana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Diana was conducted in 1946 by the Army Signal Corps. \u00a0The group sent radio signals to the moon and recorded the reflected signals (about 468,000 miles to the moon and back). The signals took 2.5 seconds to return to earth. Today called EME (Earth \u2013 Moon \u2013 Earth), the program started the space program <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1847' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4475,4912,4915,4914,4909,4913,4911],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4475","tag-army-signal-corps","tag-earth-moon-earth","tag-eme","tag-january-10","tag-moon-and-back","tag-project-diana","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29931,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/29931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}