{"id":624733,"date":"2019-07-20T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624733"},"modified":"2019-07-20T08:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T12:00:27","slug":"on-apollo-11-anniversary-a-former-crew-member-reflects-on-the-lunar-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624733","title":{"rendered":"On Apollo 11 Anniversary, A Former Crew Member Reflects On The Lunar Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gettyimages-1141653922_wide-e6c3c78522a5d12406f233386dcbb3be2d7c086d.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Collins, center, poses with Neil Armstrong, left, and Edwin &quot;Buzz&quot; Aldrin Jr. for a group portrait a few weeks before they took off to the moon in the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Humans first landed on the moon 50 years ago on July 20. Former astronaut Michael Collins was a member of the historic mission.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Space Frontiers\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/npr-rss-pixel-25.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/20\/743709340\/on-apollo-11-anniversary-a-former-crew-member-reflects-on-the-lunar-trip?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Apollo 11 Anniversary, A Former Crew Member Reflects On The Lunar Trip<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans first landed on the moon 50 years ago on July 20. Former astronaut Michael Collins was a member of the historic mission. (Image credit: Space Frontiers\/Getty Images) &#013; &#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-624733","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\/624733","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=624733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624733\/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=624733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}