{"id":148375,"date":"2022-10-17T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T04:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/former-nasa-astronaut-jim-mcdivitt-who-led-gemini-and-apollo-missions-dies-at-93"},"modified":"2022-10-17T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T04:23:16","slug":"former-nasa-astronaut-jim-mcdivitt-who-led-gemini-and-apollo-missions-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/former-nasa-astronaut-jim-mcdivitt-who-led-gemini-and-apollo-missions-dies-at-93","title":{"rendered":"Former NASA astronaut Jim McDivitt, who led Gemini and Apollo missions, dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-nasa-astronaut-jim-mcdivitt-who-led-gemini-and-apollo-missions-dies-at-932.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim McDivitt, an astronaut who played a key role in making America\u2019s first spacewalk and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/738145345\/apollo-11-50th-anniversary-coverage\">moon landing<\/a> possible, has died. He was 93.<\/p>\n<p>NASA confirmed his death to NPR on Monday, adding that he was surrounded by family and friends when he died on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Known for being a courageous test pilot and dedicated leader, McDivitt commanded two of the most crucial flights in the early space race \u2014 Gemini 4 and Apollo 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim McDivitt, an astronaut who played a key role in making America\u2019s first spacewalk and moon landing possible, has died. He was 93. NASA confirmed his death to NPR on Monday, adding that he was surrounded by family and friends when he died on Thursday. Known for being a courageous test pilot and dedicated leader, [\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-148375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148375","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=148375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}