{"id":620580,"date":"2019-06-13T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620580"},"modified":"2019-06-13T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:54:20","slug":"street-in-front-of-nasa-headquarters-renamed-to-honor-hidden-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620580","title":{"rendered":"Street In Front Of NASA Headquarters Renamed To Honor &#039;Hidden Figures&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hfw2_wide-62d340631f78a8cc9883efcba35be4c6eb80b28f.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (from left to right), U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the book Hidden Figures, unveil the &quot;Hidden Figures Way&quot; street sign at a dedication ceremony on Wednesday in Washington.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The name pays tribute to the legacy of African-American women who played a major role in the space race but were long overlooked by history. <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/npr-rss-pixel-5.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/13\/732483384\/street-in-front-of-nasa-headquarters-renamed-to-honor-hidden-figures?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Street In Front Of NASA Headquarters Renamed To Honor &#8216;Hidden Figures&#8217;<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name pays tribute to the legacy of African-American women who played a major role in the space race but were long overlooked by history. (Image credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky) &#013;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620580","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620580\/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=620580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}