{"id":80848,"date":"2018-07-22T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/gala-opens-countdown-to-50th-anniversary-of-1st-moon-landing"},"modified":"2018-07-22T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T11:02:24","slug":"gala-opens-countdown-to-50th-anniversary-of-1st-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/gala-opens-countdown-to-50th-anniversary-of-1st-moon-landing","title":{"rendered":"Gala opens countdown to 50th anniversary of 1st moon landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gala-opens-countdown-to-50th-anniversary-of-1st-moon-landing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space education foundation is a sponsor and he typically is the star attraction.<\/p>\n<p>The black-tie Apollo Celebration Gala held under a Saturn V rocket at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday evening featured a panel discussion by astronauts, an awards ceremony and an auction of space memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people attended the sold-out event, including British physicist Brian Cox, who presented Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson with the ShareSpace Foundation\u2019s Innovation award.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/kdhnews.com\/news\/nation\/gala-opens-countdown-to-th-anniversary-of-st-moon-landing\/article_e6678152-3a7c-58b6-a393-9aca6b6cc671.html\">http:\/\/kdhnews.com\/news\/nation\/gala-opens-countdown-to-th-an...cc671.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space education foundation is a sponsor and he typically is the star attraction. The black-tie Apollo Celebration Gala held under a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80848","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=80848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}