{"id":328451,"date":"2017-06-11T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1bb0715370dee218d8be1393ab0bf050"},"modified":"2017-06-11T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T12:25:00","slug":"meet-your-lucky-stars-nasa-announces-a-new-class-of-astronaut-candidates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=328451","title":{"rendered":"Meet Your Lucky Stars: NASA Announces A New Class Of Astronaut Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/06\/10\/img_0524a_wide-8d0fb5b90c694da4047ec44b1e6695cb1d10ec2e.jpg?s=600' alt='NASA's 2017 astronaut candidates round up for a group photo on Tuesday at Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center. The 12 pictured are, front row, left to right, Zena Cardman, Jasmin Moghbeli, Robb Kulin, Jessica Watkins, Loral O'Hara; back row, left to right, Jonny Kim, Frank Rubio, Matthew Dominick, Warren Hoburg, Kayla Barron, Bob Hines and Raja Chari.'\/><\/p>\n<p>This year was one of the most competitive applicant pools in the agency&#8217;s history. One of the candidates explains what it takes to earn a coveted spot \u2014 and why so many want to be an astronaut today.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=532249940' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year was one of the most competitive applicant pools in the agency&#8217;s history. One of the candidates explains what it takes to earn a coveted spot &mdash; and why so many want to be an astronaut today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1468,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328451","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\/1468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328452,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328451\/revisions\/328452"}],"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=328451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}