{"id":892,"date":"2015-10-05T21:53:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=892"},"modified":"2015-10-15T21:55:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T21:55:34","slug":"a-glimpse-into-an-astronauts-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"A glimpse into an astronaut&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-904\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"102\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1021-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1021-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1021-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget packing for a jaunt to the beach. Kids visiting the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly are setting their sights on a much more ambitious destination: Mars.<\/p>\n<p>At the Astronaut Academy, the latest offering in the TechQuest program at the Northern Virginia offshoot of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/new-game-at-udvar-hazy-gives-kids-glimpse-of-life-as-an-astronaut\/2015\/10\/02\/cceb9e64-6912-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>children are using an alternate-reality game to get an idea of what it\u2019s like to be an astronaut<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/new-game-at-udvar-hazy-gives-kids-glimpse-of-life-as-an-astronaut\/2015\/10\/02\/cceb9e64-6912-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, October 4, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget packing for a jaunt to the beach. Kids visiting the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly are setting their sights on a much more ambitious destination: Mars. At the Astronaut Academy, the latest offering in the TechQuest program at the Northern Virginia offshoot of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, children are using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A glimpse into an astronaut&#8217;s life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,107,124,84,83],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-dulles-airport","tag-education","tag-fairfax-county","tag-museum","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}