{"id":675198,"date":"2020-12-08T00:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675198"},"modified":"2020-12-08T00:28:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:28:31","slug":"pilot-chuck-yeager-dies-at-97-had-the-right-stuff-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675198","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Chuck Yeager Dies At 97, Had &#039;The Right Stuff&#039; And Then Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ap07101407339_wide-ffe12572ee8421cbb699db33cc1badaeaf4b174d.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Yeager, standing next to the &quot;Glamorous Glennis,&quot; the Bell X-1 experimental plane in which he first broke the sound barrier.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chuck Yeager has died: Fighter ace, test pilot, breaker of the sound barrier, coolest of the cool \u2014 he was the man even astronauts looked up to. NPR&#8217;s Russell D. Lewis has this remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: AP)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/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\/12\/07\/341894780\/pilot-chuck-yeager-dies-at-97-had-the-right-stuff-and-then-some\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pilot Chuck Yeager Dies At 97, Had &#8216;The Right Stuff&#8217; And Then Some<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Yeager has died: Fighter ace, test pilot, breaker of the sound barrier, coolest of the cool \u2014 he was the man even astronauts looked up to. NPR&#8217;s Russell D.&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-675198","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\/675198","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=675198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675198\/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=675198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}