{"id":23274,"date":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/ames\/news\/features\/2010\/sofia_update.html"},"modified":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T04:00:00","slug":"sofia-nearing-first-light-astronomy-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=23274","title":{"rendered":"SOFIA Nearing &#8216;First-Light&#8217; Astronomy Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/446977main_SOFIA%20open%20door_100.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Scientists and technicians are preparing NASA&#8217;s long-awaited Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy \u2013 or SOFIA \u2013for its first science mission, when the high-tech flying telescope will gather &#8220;first light&#8221; imagery and data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/446977main_SOFIA%20open%20door_100.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Scientists and technicians are preparing NASA&#8217;s long-awaited Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy \u2013 or SOFIA \u2013for its first science mission, when the high-tech flying telescope will gather &#8220;first light&#8221; imagery and data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/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=23274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}