{"id":161681,"date":"2023-04-07T06:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/nine-year-old-child-genius-stuns-nasa-scientists-while-visiting-the-space-telescope-science-institute"},"modified":"2023-04-07T06:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:24:35","slug":"nine-year-old-child-genius-stuns-nasa-scientists-while-visiting-the-space-telescope-science-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/nine-year-old-child-genius-stuns-nasa-scientists-while-visiting-the-space-telescope-science-institute","title":{"rendered":"Nine-Year-Old Child Genius Stuns NASA Scientists While Visiting The Space Telescope Science Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nine-year-old-child-genius-stuns-nasa-scientists-while-visiting-the-space-telescope-science-institute2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Child prot\u00e9g\u00e9e, David Balogun, continues to shock the world with his incredible genius.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-year-old is one of the youngest high school graduates, receiving his diploma from Reach Cyber Charter School in Harrisburg, PA. After graduation, Balogun was invited by NASA and the Maryland-based Space Telescope Science Institute to visit the James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center in Baltimore. His story made headlines and Hannah Braun, the institute\u2019s spokesperson, said the team just had to meet him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had actually seen David\u2019s story all over social media and thought, \u2018Wow, I\u2019d bet he\u2019d find a trip to Webb\u2019s Mission Operations Center exciting!\u2019\u201d Braun <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2023\/04\/04\/nine-year-old-college-student-meets-nasa-scientists-and-stumps-them-with-his-brilliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> to <em>Atlanta Black Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child prot\u00e9g\u00e9e, David Balogun, continues to shock the world with his incredible genius. The nine-year-old is one of the youngest high school graduates, receiving his diploma from Reach Cyber Charter School in Harrisburg, PA. After graduation, Balogun was invited by NASA and the Maryland-based Space Telescope Science Institute to visit the James Webb Space Telescope [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161681","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=161681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}