{"id":702433,"date":"2021-09-20T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=702433"},"modified":"2021-09-20T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:55:00","slug":"60-years-ago-nasa-selects-houston-as-site-for-new-manned-spacecraft-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=702433","title":{"rendered":"60 Years Ago: NASA Selects Houston as Site for New Manned Spacecraft Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, 1961, in a speech before a Joint Session of Congress, President John F. Kennedy committed the nation to achieve the goal of \u201clanding a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth\u201d before the end of the decade.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/60-years-ago-nasa-selects-houston-as-site-for-new-manned-spacecraft-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">60 Years Ago: NASA Selects Houston as Site for New Manned Spacecraft Center<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Johnson Space Center&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, 1961, in a speech before a Joint Session of Congress, President John F. Kennedy committed the nation to achieve the goal of \u201clanding a man on 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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702433","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=702433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702433\/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=702433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}