{"id":624236,"date":"2019-07-16T17:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624236"},"modified":"2019-07-16T17:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:34:35","slug":"apollo-11-astronaut-returns-to-launch-pad-where-first-humans-lifted-off-for-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624236","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11 astronaut returns to launch pad where first humans lifted off for the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned to the launch pad Tuesday at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where he flew to the moon 50 years ago along with the late Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.\u201cWonderful feeling to be back at launch pad 39A,\u201d Collins, the command module pilot for Apollo 11, said in an interview on the pad with Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, himself a veteran of four space shuttle launches and a former shuttle commander.In the<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=I6hCnfofALw:0ylfZov79RQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=I6hCnfofALw:0ylfZov79RQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=I6hCnfofALw:0ylfZov79RQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~3\/I6hCnfofALw\/apollo-11-astronaut-returns-to-launch-pad-where-first-humans-lifted-off-for-the-moon-idUSKCN1UB2Q5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Apollo 11 astronaut returns to launch pad where first humans lifted off for the moon<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Reuters Science News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned to the launch pad Tuesday at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where he flew to the moon 50 years ago along with the&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-624236","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\/624236","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=624236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624236\/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=624236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}