{"id":33,"date":"2005-10-06T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2005-10-06T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T02:00:43","slug":"astronaut-walt-cunningham-ambassador-of-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/astronaut-walt-cunningham-ambassador-of-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Walt Cunningham &#8211; Ambassador of Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/astronotes\/astronotes.html\">SPACE.com &#8212; Astronotes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNASA will honor former astronaut <strong>Walt Cunningham<\/strong> as an &#8220;Ambassador of Exploration,&#8221; an award which provides recognition for the astronauts of the space agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first manned spaceflight programs: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, October 7, at 12:00 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT), NASA officials will present Cunningham with the award, a lucite-encased moon rock, at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. He is donating the rock to the museum, which presently displays the Apollo 7 Command Module on loan from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/astronotes\/astronotes.html\">Read More<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n<p>This is too cool! Walt Cunningham&#8217;s family lived up the street from us when I was a kid. One of his sisters used to babysit my brother and me and another sister went to the same high school I did. Congratulations Walt Cunningham!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA will honor former astronaut Walt Cunningham as an &#8220;Ambassador of Exploration,&#8221; an award which provides recognition for the astronauts of the space agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first manned spaceflight programs: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-people","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}