{"id":728957,"date":"2022-07-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728957"},"modified":"2022-07-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:00:00","slug":"first-microgravity-experiment-flown-on-project-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728957","title":{"rendered":"First Microgravity Experiment Flown on Project Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 1962, NASA\u2019s first microgravity experiment was flown on Astronaut Scott Carpenter\u2019s mission to orbit the Moon. The experiment, designed by researchers at NASA Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn), provided the nation\u2019s first long-duration study of fluid physics in a microgravity environment.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/glenn\/2022\/history\/first-microgravity-experiment-flown-on-project-mercury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First Microgravity Experiment Flown on Project Mercury<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Glenn Center&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 1962, NASA\u2019s first microgravity experiment was flown on Astronaut Scott Carpenter\u2019s mission to orbit the Moon. The experiment, designed by researchers at NASA Lewis Research Center (now NASA&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glenn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728957","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=728957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728957\/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=728957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}