{"id":196582,"date":"2024-09-23T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/university-of-florida-professor-to-fly-blue-origin-new-shepard-on-mission-for-nasa"},"modified":"2024-09-23T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T14:23:15","slug":"university-of-florida-professor-to-fly-blue-origin-new-shepard-on-mission-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/university-of-florida-professor-to-fly-blue-origin-new-shepard-on-mission-for-nasa","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida Professor to Fly Blue Origin New Shepard on Mission for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/university-of-florida-professor-to-fly-blue-origin-new-shepard-on-mission-for-nasa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Florida horticulture science professor Rob Ferl is going where some men have gone before, including William Shatner and Jeff Bezos, but he\u2019s bringing along some experimental plant life for NASA.<\/p>\n<p>Ferl, a researcher within UF\u2019s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, is also the director of UF\u2019s new Astraeus Space Institute. He is joining five other people on the launch of Blue Origin\u2019s suborbital New Shepard rocket today for what will be its eighth human spaceflight. Dubbed NS-26, the capsule is set for liftoff as early as 9:00 a.m. EDT from Blue Origin\u2019s West Texas launch facility.<\/p>\n<p>Along for the ride will be a species of plant called Arabidopsis thaliana. Ferl will be looking at how its genes adapt on the way to space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Florida horticulture science professor Rob Ferl is going where some men have gone before, including William Shatner and Jeff Bezos, but he\u2019s bringing along some experimental plant life for NASA. Ferl, a researcher within UF\u2019s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, is also the director of UF\u2019s new Astraeus Space Institute. He is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196582","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}