{"id":696155,"date":"2021-07-15T14:26:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696155"},"modified":"2021-07-15T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:26:51","slug":"an-18-year-old-will-join-blue-origins-first-human-spaceflight-after-a-late-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696155","title":{"rendered":"An 18-Year-Old Will Join Blue Origin&#039;s First Human Spaceflight, After A Late Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/blueorigin_oliver_daemen_headshot_wide-d3d6258d888bd7612fb32881f5eb8d19b5fae9b2.jpe\" alt=\"Oliver Daemen, 18, will join Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and two others on a trip to the edge of space next week.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The flight will also include company founder Jeff Bezos and Wally Funk, 82 \u2014 who was older than Oliver Daemen is now back in the early 1960s, when she first trained to be an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Blue Origin)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/npr-rss-pixel-8.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/15\/1016510564\/blue-origin-space-18-year-old-bezos-oliver-daemen-netherlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An 18-Year-Old Will Join Blue Origin&#8217;s First Human Spaceflight, After A Late Shuffle<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flight will also include company founder Jeff Bezos and Wally Funk, 82 \u2014 who was older than Oliver Daemen is now back in the early 1960s, when she first&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-696155","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\/696155","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=696155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696155\/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=696155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}