{"id":655423,"date":"2020-05-19T17:32:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=655423"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:32:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:32:17","slug":"head-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program-resigns-a-week-before-crucial-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=655423","title":{"rendered":"Head Of NASA&#039;s Human Spaceflight Program Resigns A Week Before Crucial Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200123-_dsc7859_wide-4f7e0330ecd94df9b350334d87990d44050c0b86.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Loverro, associate NASA administrator for the human exploration and operations mission directorate, in an official portrait taken in January. Loverro announced his resignation on Tuesday.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sudden departure of Doug Loverro startled the space community, which has been eagerly anticipating the planned May 27 launch of astronauts from U.S. soil for the first time since 2011. <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/Aubrey Gemignani\/(NASA\/Aubrey Gemignani))<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/npr-rss-pixel-6.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/19\/859019450\/head-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program-resigns-a-week-before-crucial-launch?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Head Of NASA&#8217;s Human Spaceflight Program Resigns A Week Before Crucial Launch<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden departure of Doug Loverro startled the space community, which has been eagerly anticipating the planned May 27 launch of astronauts from U.S. soil for the first time since&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-655423","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\/655423","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=655423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655423\/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=655423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}