{"id":40402,"date":"2010-07-20T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123214088"},"modified":"2010-07-20T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:38:00","slug":"children-blast-off-to-the-moon-at-summer-space-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=40402","title":{"rendered":"Children blast off to the moon at summer space camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123214088\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100720-F-3295M-009.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Twelve-year-old Emily Boyce knows exactly what she wants to do in life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be the first woman on the moon and the first person on Mars,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Emily was one of 54 middle school children who, for one week, joined the Federation of Galaxy Explorers at Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy, one of Peterson Air Force Base&#8217;s feeder schools at 4220 E. Pikes Peak Ave. <\/p>\n<p>The children and their instructors called themselves Moon Base One Camp. They broke up into two teams &#8211; they designed their mission patch, built models of the moon, studied space suits, busted rocks to examine their core material and launched their hand-made rockets. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123214088\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40402","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40402\/revisions"}],"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=40402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}