{"id":104629,"date":"2020-04-02T01:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T08:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/more-than-12000-apply-to-become-an-astronaut-for-nasas-artemis-generation"},"modified":"2020-04-02T01:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T08:25:57","slug":"more-than-12000-apply-to-become-an-astronaut-for-nasas-artemis-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/more-than-12000-apply-to-become-an-astronaut-for-nasas-artemis-generation","title":{"rendered":"More than 12,000 apply to become an astronaut for NASA\u2019s \u2018Artemis Generation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-than-12000-apply-to-become-an-astronaut-for-nasas-artemis-generation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results are in and, no surprise, a lot of people want to be a NASA astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>More than 12,000 people have applied to join what NASA is calling the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/nasa-accepting-astronaut-applications-2020-class.html\">Artemis Generation<\/a>,\u201d a new class of astronauts to help the agency return humans to the moon and reach outward to Mars. It\u2019s the second highest number of applications the agency\u2019s astronaut corps has ever received, NASA officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in and, no surprise, a lot of people want to be a NASA astronaut. More than 12,000 people have applied to join what NASA is calling the \u201cArtemis Generation,\u201d a new class of astronauts to help the agency return humans to the moon and reach outward to Mars. It\u2019s the second highest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}