{"id":423930,"date":"2018-01-06T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=454ee6062b6cc7dad81c0c45e8d956ad"},"modified":"2018-01-06T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T18:49:10","slug":"astronaut-john-young-who-flew-in-space-6-times-dies-at-87-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=423930","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut John Young, Who Flew In Space 6 Times, Dies At 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/01\/06\/apollo16_salute_wide-a822c8efde7d1d6746abf79accf54b811dae2edf.jpg?s=600' alt='On the moon in 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut John Young jumps off of the lunar surface to salute the U.S. flag.'\/><\/p>\n<p>One of NASA&#8217;s most accomplished astronauts died Friday. He flew in space six times, including a moon landing, and later headed the office that chose crews for space shuttle missions.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Charles M. Duke, Jr.\/NASA)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=517138761' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of NASA&#8217;s most accomplished astronauts died Friday. He flew in space six times, including a moon landing, and later headed the office that chose crews for space shuttle missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423930","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423931,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423930\/revisions\/423931"}],"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=423930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}