{"id":43633,"date":"2010-08-04T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123216335"},"modified":"2010-08-04T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:45:12","slug":"astronauts-widow-continues-husbands-legacy-ensures-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=43633","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut&#8217;s widow continues husband&#8217;s legacy, ensures space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, seven crewmembers perished 73 seconds into flight during what is now referred to as the &#8220;Space Shuttle Challenger accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of those fallen members was Lt. Col. Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American to reach space and a University of Colorado alumnus. Though this final flight was short, his legacy and the continuance of space exploration lives on through the Challenger Center for Space Science Education.<\/p>\n<p>This non-profit organization was created by the families of the astronauts from Challenger Space Shuttle mission STS-51-L and was dedicated to that mission&#8217;s educational spirit.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123216335\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, seven crewmembers perished 73 seconds into flight during what is now referred to as the &#8220;Space Shuttle Challenger accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of those fallen members was Lt. Col. Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American to reach space and a University &#8230;<\/p>\n","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-43633","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\/43633","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=43633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43633\/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=43633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}