{"id":192300,"date":"2024-07-03T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/nasa-announces-artemis-2-moon-mission-backup-astronaut-andre-douglas-will-support-2025-lunar-liftoff"},"modified":"2024-07-03T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T03:22:23","slug":"nasa-announces-artemis-2-moon-mission-backup-astronaut-andre-douglas-will-support-2025-lunar-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/nasa-announces-artemis-2-moon-mission-backup-astronaut-andre-douglas-will-support-2025-lunar-liftoff","title":{"rendered":"NASA announces Artemis 2 moon mission backup astronaut \u2014 Andre Douglas will support 2025 lunar liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-announces-artemis-2-moon-mission-backup-astronaut-andre-douglas-will-support-2025-lunar-liftoff2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/nasa-astronaut-class-23-artemis-moon-commercial-space-stations\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/nasa-astronaut-class-23-artemis-moon-commercial-space-stations\">New NASA astronauts celebrate moon missions, private space stations as they get ready for liftoff (exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been fascinated with new things. I like to develop things,\u201d Douglas told <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> in March about the Artemis program, which later this decade aims to put astronauts on the moon\u2019s surface for the first time since 1972. \u201cI really believe in pushing ourselves, in understanding what is our true potential: both me as an individual, [and] within all of us as a species.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the perfect place to be, where we\u2019re going to push that boundary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related: New NASA astronauts celebrate moon missions, private space stations as they get ready for liftoff (exclusive) \u201cI\u2019ve always been fascinated with new things. I like to develop things,\u201d Douglas told Space.com in March about the Artemis program, which later this decade aims to put astronauts on the moon\u2019s surface for the first time since [\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-192300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192300","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=192300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}