{"id":117612,"date":"2011-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_2040.html"},"modified":"2011-08-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:00:00","slug":"elmo-and-sts-135-commander-chris-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=117612","title":{"rendered":"Elmo and STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crew of STS-135, NASA&#8217;s final space shuttle mission, and Sesame Street&#8217;s Elmo welcomed visitors to &#8220;What&#8217;s Your Favorite Space?&#8221; in New York City. The free, public event was presented by NASA and Eventi on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on the hotel&#8217;s &#8220;Big Screen Plaza.&#8221; The outdoor plaza was transformed into a miniature space outpost filled with displays including an inflatable Mars Rover, demonstrations, interactive exhibits, video segments, children&#8217;s activities and more. Pictured with Elmo is STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson. Image Credit: NASA\/Sean Smith <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crew of STS-135, NASA&#8217;s final space shuttle mission, and Sesame Street&#8217;s Elmo welcomed visitors to &#8220;What&#8217;s Your Favorite Space?&#8221; in New York City. The free, public event was presented by NASA and Eventi on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on the hotel&#8217;s &#8220;Big Screen Plaza.&#8221; The outdoor plaza was transformed into a miniature space outpost filled with displays including an inflatable Mars Rover, demonstrations, interactive exhibits, video segments, children&#8217;s activities and more. Pictured with Elmo is STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson. Image Credit: NASA\/Sean Smith <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117612","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}