{"id":131863,"date":"2021-12-06T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T19:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasa-announces-2021-class-of-astronaut-candidates"},"modified":"2021-12-06T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T19:23:20","slug":"nasa-announces-2021-class-of-astronaut-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasa-announces-2021-class-of-astronaut-candidates","title":{"rendered":"NASA Announces 2021 Class of Astronaut Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UGpZxV9AJKM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After evaluating more than 12,000 applications, we\u2019ll introduce our 2021 astronaut candidates live at a ceremony at Ellington Field near NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>After completing training, these women and men could be eligible for a variety of flight assignments including missions on and around the Moon under Artemis.<\/p>\n<p>The astronaut candidates will join NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Johnson Center Director Vanessa Wyche, and Flight Operations Director Norm Knight on stage at the event.<\/p>\n<p>More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-to-announce-america-s-next-class-of-astronaut-candidates\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-to-announce-america-\u2026candidates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After evaluating more than 12,000 applications, we\u2019ll introduce our 2021 astronaut candidates live at a ceremony at Ellington Field near NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After completing training, these women and men could be eligible for a variety of flight assignments including missions on and around the Moon under Artemis. The astronaut candidates will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131863","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}