{"id":266423,"date":"2017-01-26T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a5642507e9ec8459edd3e008a410b738"},"modified":"2017-01-26T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T23:18:00","slug":"50-years-later-nasa-creates-tribute-to-3-astronauts-who-died-in-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=266423","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Later, NASA Creates Tribute To 3 Astronauts Who Died In Space Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/01\/26\/gettyimages-557712227_wide-3ea2e449f138a7db172f4e532423afa295a77697.jpg?s=600' alt='Apollo 1 astronauts Ed White (from left), Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, 1967. The astronauts died as a result of a fire in the cockpit during a training session on Jan. 27, 1967.'\/><\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 27, 1967, three astronauts were killed when a fire broke out in their Apollo 1 cockpit during a test on the launchpad. The capsule will be put on public view for the first time Friday.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Keystone\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=511660847' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 27, 1967, three astronauts were killed when a fire broke out in their Apollo 1 cockpit during a test on the launchpad. The capsule will be put on public view for the first time Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266423","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\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266424,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266423\/revisions\/266424"}],"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=266423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}