{"id":105960,"date":"2020-04-24T05:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/hubble-space-telescope-at-30-astronaut-mike-massimino-looks-back-at-fixing-a-space-icon"},"modified":"2020-04-24T05:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:03:38","slug":"hubble-space-telescope-at-30-astronaut-mike-massimino-looks-back-at-fixing-a-space-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/hubble-space-telescope-at-30-astronaut-mike-massimino-looks-back-at-fixing-a-space-icon","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope at 30: Astronaut Mike Massimino looks back at fixing a space icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-space-telescope-at-30-astronaut-mike-massimino-looks-back-at-fixing-a-space-icon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years ago this week \u2014 on April 24, 1990 \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15892-hubble-space-telescope.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> launched into space and opened humanity\u2019s eyes to the cosmos. Now, we reflect on how this groundbreaking instrument has changed and evolved our understanding of the universe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> spoke to retired NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, who currently serves as the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, about his experiences working with the telescope and its importance to science and society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago this week \u2014 on April 24, 1990 \u2014 the Hubble Space Telescope launched into space and opened humanity\u2019s eyes to the cosmos. Now, we reflect on how this groundbreaking instrument has changed and evolved our understanding of the universe. Space.com spoke to retired NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, who currently serves as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105960","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=105960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}