{"id":249279,"date":"2016-12-09T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e9126aa51803e4f5a296a0c1b67c7cf4"},"modified":"2016-12-09T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T21:40:14","slug":"encore-astronaut-john-glenn-recalls-historic-orbit-of-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=249279","title":{"rendered":"Encore: Astronaut John Glenn Recalls Historic Orbit Of Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut John Glenn \u2014 who was one of NASA&#8217;s original Mercury Seven \u2014 was the first American to orbit Earth. He flew the mission in just under five hours, circling the globe three times in a capsule named Friendship 7. Glenn, who says he recalls the mission as if it were just last week, told NPR&#8217;s Audie Cornish he doesn&#8217;t want the U.S. to lose sight of the future and America&#8217;s role in outer space. <em>This story originally aired on Feb. 20, 2012 on <\/em> All Things Considered.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=505012157' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut John Glenn &mdash; who was one of NASA&#8217;s original Mercury Seven &mdash; was the first American to orbit Earth. He flew the mission in just under five hours, circling the globe three times in a capsule named Friendship 7. Glenn, who says he recalls the mission as if it were just last week, told NPR&#8217;s Audie Cornish he doesn&#8217;t want the U.S. to lose sight of the future and America&#8217;s role in outer space. <em>This story originally aired on Feb. 20, 2012 on <\/em> All Things Considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249279","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\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249280,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249279\/revisions\/249280"}],"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=249279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}