{"id":481065,"date":"2018-05-31T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1537198\/nasa-astronaut-shares-his-story-with-airmen-local-youth\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:26:00","slug":"nasa-astronaut-shares-his-story-with-airmen-local-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=481065","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut shares his story with Airmen, local youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. &#8212; Nearly 600 children, kindergarten through eighth grade, from Aurora Quest K-8 School filled the gymnasium for a general assembly. Little did they know that this particular assembly would be unlike any they\u2019ve had this year. After Dave Schoenhals, Aurora Quest K-8 principal, greeted his students he revealed the big surprise. They would be meeting a real-life astronaut. <\/p>\n<p>The gym grew loud with the chatter of children as they shifted around on the wood floor and whispered into the ears of their neighbors.<br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/May\/31\/2001925009\/82\/55\/0\/180522-F-GG973-5899.JPG' alt='Col. Jack \u201c2 Fish\u201d Fischer, NASA astronaut, gives a presentation in front of a projector screen playing footage from his missions, May 22, 2018, at Aurora Quest K-8 School, Aurora, Colorado. Fischer\u2019s speech was a surprise for nearly 600 students at Aurora Quest K-8 School, who thought they would be attending a general assembly. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Madison J. Ratley)' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. &#8212; Nearly 600 children, kindergarten through eighth grade, from Aurora Quest K-8 School filled the gymnasium for a general assembly. Little did they know that this particular assembly would be unlike any they&rsquo;ve had this year. After Dave Schoenhals, Aurora Quest K-8 principal, greeted his students he revealed the big surprise. They would be meeting a real-life astronaut. <\/p>\n<p>The gym grew loud with the chatter of children as they shifted around on the wood floor and whispered into the ears of their neighbors.<br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/May\/31\/2001925009\/82\/55\/0\/180522-F-GG973-5899.JPG\" alt=\"Col. Jack &ldquo;2 Fish&rdquo; Fischer, NASA astronaut, gives a presentation in front of a projector screen playing footage from his missions, May 22, 2018, at Aurora Quest K-8 School, Aurora, Colorado. Fischer&rsquo;s speech was a surprise for nearly 600 students at Aurora Quest K-8 School, who thought they would be attending a general assembly. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Madison J. Ratley)\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3105,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481065","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\/481065","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\/3105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481069,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481065\/revisions\/481069"}],"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=481065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}