{"id":485919,"date":"2018-06-13T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T12:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=62e6ab9d47ea4dd979942ec6840c4482"},"modified":"2018-06-13T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T12:15:12","slug":"nasa-flies-large-unmanned-aircraft-in-public-airspace-without-chase-plane-for-first-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=485919","title":{"rendered":"NASA flies large unmanned aircraft in public airspace without chase plane for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency&#8217;s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully flew its first mission in the National Airspace System without a safety chase aircraft on Tuesday. This historic flight moves the United States one step closer to normalizing unmanned aircraft operations in the airspace used by commercial and private pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency&#8217;s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully flew its first mission in the National Airspace System without a safety chase aircraft on Tuesday. This historic flight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485919","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485920,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485919\/revisions\/485920"}],"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=485919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}