{"id":33297,"date":"2017-01-08T13:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/first-african-american-astronaut-to-board-the-international-space-station"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:25","slug":"first-african-american-astronaut-to-board-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/first-african-american-astronaut-to-board-the-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"First African-American Astronaut To Board The International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-african-american-astronaut-to-board-the-international-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luv this; definitely a great role model to young girls everywhere.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This was the first of two spacewalks astronauts will perform this month to finalize the replacement of 12 old nickel-hydrogen batteries six with new lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Kimbrough is wearing the suit bearing red stripes marked as EV1 member 1, but Whitson is wearing the suit with no stripes, marked EV2, member 2.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is sending an African-American astronaut to the International Space Station for the first time. Built by Swales Aerospace Inc., it is the staple of NASA\u2019s space tool arsenal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/celebcafe.org\/first-african-american-astronaut-to-board-the-international-space-station-9378\/\">http:\/\/celebcafe.org\/first-african-american-astronaut-to-boa...tion-9378\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luv this; definitely a great role model to young girls everywhere. This was the first of two spacewalks astronauts will perform this month to finalize the replacement of 12 old nickel-hydrogen batteries six with new lithium-ion batteries. Kimbrough is wearing the suit bearing red stripes marked as EV1 member 1, but Whitson is wearing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33297","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65409,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33297\/revisions\/65409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}