{"id":170561,"date":"2023-08-25T17:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/how-nasa-chose-its-first-woman-in-space"},"modified":"2023-08-25T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:24:06","slug":"how-nasa-chose-its-first-woman-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/how-nasa-chose-its-first-woman-in-space","title":{"rendered":"How NASA Chose Its First Woman In Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-nasa-chose-its-first-woman-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive excerpt from her forthcoming book, The Six: The Untold Story of America\u2019s First Women Astronauts, Loren Grush traces how NASA picked Sally Ride, and why Ride\u2019s struggle resonates today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive excerpt from her forthcoming book, The Six: The Untold Story of America\u2019s First Women Astronauts, Loren Grush traces how NASA picked Sally Ride, and why Ride\u2019s struggle resonates today.<\/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-170561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170561","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=170561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}