{"id":79668,"date":"2018-06-17T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-incredible-career-of-nasas-peggy-whitson-who-applied-to-become-an-astronaut-10-times-before-she-broke-the-american-record-for-space-travel"},"modified":"2018-06-21T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T07:06:44","slug":"the-incredible-career-of-nasas-peggy-whitson-who-applied-to-become-an-astronaut-10-times-before-she-broke-the-american-record-for-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-incredible-career-of-nasas-peggy-whitson-who-applied-to-become-an-astronaut-10-times-before-she-broke-the-american-record-for-space-travel","title":{"rendered":"The incredible career of NASA\u2019s Peggy Whitson, who applied to become an astronaut 10 times before she broke the American record for space travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-incredible-career-of-nasas-peggy-whitson-who-applied-to-become-an-astronaut-10-times-before-she-broke-the-american-record-for-space-travel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She retired from NASA on Friday after blazing a trail for countless female astronauts.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, the 58-year-old from Iowa farm country who spent a record-breaking 665 days in space, retired from the space agency on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have hit my radiation limit,\u201d Whitson told Business Insider during a recent interview. \u201cSo not going into space with NASA anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That realization is both melancholic and exciting for the biochemist, who only half-jokingly admits she\u2019s still not sure what she\u2019s going to do \u201cwhen I grow up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-astronaut-peggy-whitson-career-2018-6?utm_content=bufferba9b0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-astronaut-peggy-whitson-...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She retired from NASA on Friday after blazing a trail for countless female astronauts. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, the 58-year-old from Iowa farm country who spent a record-breaking 665 days in space, retired from the space agency on Friday. \u201cI have hit my radiation limit,\u201d Whitson told Business Insider during a recent interview. \u201cSo not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79668","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79792,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79668\/revisions\/79792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}