{"id":327136,"date":"2017-06-07T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e9fb865df0e52627152bb6a749b23a45"},"modified":"2017-06-07T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:52:42","slug":"mars-rover-scientist-spacex-engineer-join-nasa-astronaut-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=327136","title":{"rendered":"Mars rover scientist, SpaceX engineer join NASA astronaut corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) &#8211; NASA named 12 astronauts on Wednesday to the U.S. space agency&#8217;s first new class of space fliers in five years, chosen from a record 18,300 applicants, for a new era of space travel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=WoNy44-dM5k:AcOtvXTWjr8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=WoNy44-dM5k:AcOtvXTWjr8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=WoNy44-dM5k:AcOtvXTWjr8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=WoNy44-dM5k:AcOtvXTWjr8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=WoNy44-dM5k:AcOtvXTWjr8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/WoNy44-dM5k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) &#8211; NASA named 12 astronauts on Wednesday to the U.S. space agency&#8217;s first new class of space fliers in five years, chosen from a record 18,300 applicants, for a new era of space travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327136","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327137,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327136\/revisions\/327137"}],"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=327136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}