{"id":45717,"date":"2020-01-12T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T15:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45717"},"modified":"2020-01-12T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T15:12:01","slug":"meet-nasas-newest-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/01\/meet-nasas-newest-astronauts\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet NASA&#8217;s Newest Astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> It\u2019s graduation season for our new astronauts! A class of 11 Americans and two Canadians were honored in a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001PSp9abMBH1q3fD01-4QmIXPTHl-Ti8LamIejBx4DeLcg7vr0dQgrlv4n-10JYVdspqzNUpGkNgQoIDvC3LGtYZ9oRxvun7GqBIZeBkoimLBUncKKHhEvT7DaWXbDBhayq760XeBWxQA1E9YB0JwetT0WWdYs5akq8CrbF4Q8IGYZhYJBJa-v2g==&amp;c=KSSs9aOa7rocvJrsQL8FbsYv9GTrilNNPtlBDriA9xyXiW3xhUUeyA==&amp;ch=VvMQ7hp_ogKTaoMREKuexiLARWoP4Q5cMqSxX_1gwmBGHVW0AQjIJg==\" target=\"_blank\">graduation ceremony<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, Jan. 10, at our\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001PSp9abMBH1q3fD01-4QmIXPTHl-Ti8LamIejBx4DeLcg7vr0dQgrlt2nWS4COBAjPtF4hR43ESchtiuLe8iZs4R0ERWAJOt0oRX9gsYabK9phMJNXInlQjNLAN-fQGW4CfZIRSDZlD-ndj0Z48UxMfvR4RV7CrH5cRbYN6tCGm3Aqj1yKKg2BzDNdjg3VBcw&amp;c=KSSs9aOa7rocvJrsQL8FbsYv9GTrilNNPtlBDriA9xyXiW3xhUUeyA==&amp;ch=VvMQ7hp_ogKTaoMREKuexiLARWoP4Q5cMqSxX_1gwmBGHVW0AQjIJg==\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson Space Center<\/a>.<br>The astronauts successfully completed more than two years of required basic training and are now eligible for spaceflight assignments to the International Space Station, Artemis missions to the Moon, and ultimately, missions to Mars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-1.png 632w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-1-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Introducing the Graduates<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Pilot. Explorer. Doctor. Researcher. These are just a few of the career backgrounds of our new astronauts. The 11 astronauts were selected in 2017 from a record-setting pool of more than 18,000 applicants.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001PSp9abMBH1q3fD01-4QmIXPTHl-Ti8LamIejBx4DeLcg7vr0dQgrlv4n-10JYVdsecWoeVuCqqqE2TZfL8VdVTa_AzxLuN6qZ6yWBe2oDSDbZX7_zWnztTWSrcA-wKMwDxeEVQydLlhJqCtgH0-_BdUY6AjOCWucMrGkCNnoB7JCmQ6zqKsNrGWajeBM91MUhb6oJI7HZFD54Pr5vyonGWzIrAt_VuZ5FDkyAs-QyDU=&amp;c=KSSs9aOa7rocvJrsQL8FbsYv9GTrilNNPtlBDriA9xyXiW3xhUUeyA==&amp;ch=VvMQ7hp_ogKTaoMREKuexiLARWoP4Q5cMqSxX_1gwmBGHVW0AQjIJg==\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more<\/a>\u00a0about the new space heroes! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Artemis Age Astronauts<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The next frontier isn\u2019t just for the next generation, it\u2019s for this generation. Our new astronauts are the first to graduate since we announced our\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001PSp9abMBH1q3fD01-4QmIXPTHl-Ti8LamIejBx4DeLcg7vr0dQgrlqU4TtvtcY2LdlVVrvQRFroFIenk_PmuOUYwBDB55bj_C5U1bxIk_fJ5CUH8hvBgaf07mE8mjcBRUSQtP2lQA_k8_fbGuovd2cGTB1mzaKGyrprwKGzJf3c=&amp;c=KSSs9aOa7rocvJrsQL8FbsYv9GTrilNNPtlBDriA9xyXiW3xhUUeyA==&amp;ch=VvMQ7hp_ogKTaoMREKuexiLARWoP4Q5cMqSxX_1gwmBGHVW0AQjIJg==\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis program<\/a>\u00a0to send the first woman and next man to the surface of the Moon by 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s graduation season for our new astronauts! A class of 11 Americans and two Canadians were honored in a\u00a0graduation ceremony\u00a0on Friday, Jan. 10, at our\u00a0Johnson Space Center.The astronauts successfully completed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}