{"id":159059,"date":"2024-06-01T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=159059"},"modified":"2024-06-01T08:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:46:59","slug":"20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=159059","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Ago: NASA Selects its 19th Group of Astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 6, 2004, NASA announced the selection of its 19th group of astronauts. The group comprised 11 candidates \u2013 two pilots, six mission specialists, and three educator mission specialists \u2013 and included two women, two Hispanic Americans, and one African American. Three astronauts from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) joined the 11 NASA [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 6, 2004, NASA announced the selection of its 19th group of astronauts. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts.jpg",1050,740,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts-300x211.jpg",300,211,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts-768x541.jpg",640,451,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts-1024x722.jpg",640,451,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts.jpg",1050,740,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts.jpg",1050,740,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts-1024x722.jpg",1024,722,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/159059-20-years-ago-nasa-selects-its-19th-group-of-astronauts-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}