{"id":142725,"date":"2022-07-24T01:10:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T06:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/rocket-fuel-in-her-blood-the-story-of-joann-morgan"},"modified":"2022-07-24T01:10:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T06:10:35","slug":"rocket-fuel-in-her-blood-the-story-of-joann-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/rocket-fuel-in-her-blood-the-story-of-joann-morgan","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Fuel in Her Blood: The Story of JoAnn Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-fuel-in-her-blood-the-story-of-joann-morgan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JoAnn Morgan was the only woman in the launch firing room during the launch of Apollo 11.<\/p>\n<p>Credits: NASA<\/p>\n<p>In spite of working for all of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, and being promoted to a senior engineer, Morgan was still not permitted in the firing room at liftoff \u2014 until Apollo 11, when \u201cKarl Sendler went to bat for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JoAnn Morgan was the only woman in the launch firing room during the launch of Apollo 11. Credits: NASA In spite of working for all of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, and being promoted to a senior engineer, Morgan was still not permitted in the firing room at liftoff \u2014 until Apollo 11, when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142725","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\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}