{"id":1019,"date":"2004-07-05T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T19:31:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-07-05T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T19:31:30","slug":"orbiting-astronaut-calls-flight-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"ORBITING ASTRONAUT CALLS FLIGHT &#8216;FANTASTIC&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     Astronaut Mike Fincke, who is living and working on board the International Space Station, conveyed his congratulations to the SpaceShipOne team during space-to-ground communications today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fantastic!&#8221; Fincke said upon hearing the news that test pilot Mike Melvill had successfully completed the first privately funded suborbital human space flight. &#8220;We were wishing them the best of luck. We&#8217;re all in the space business together, helping mankind get off the planet and explore the stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re really proud of them, and please, if possible, extend to them our happiest congratulations,&#8221; he said to the flight controllers in Mission Control Center at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut Mike Fincke, who is living and working on board the International Space Station, conveyed his congratulations to the SpaceShipOne team during space-to-ground communications today. &#8220;Fantastic!&#8221; Fincke said upon hearing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}