{"id":98280,"date":"2024-07-31T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-epic-nasa-space-missions-astronauts-pilots\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T06:00:12","slug":"5-epic-nasa-space-missions-and-the-astronauts-who-piloted-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=98280","title":{"rendered":"5 Epic NASA Space Missions And The Astronauts Who Piloted Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Since its inception, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/nasa\/\">NASA<\/a> has been at the forefront of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/category\/space\/\" >space<\/a> exploration. While the Soviets were the first to put a man in space, NASA followed a few weeks later and has held the lead ever since. Today, private companies like SpaceX are playing leading roles in launching astronauts into space (and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spacex-nasa-astronauts-iss-boeing-starliner-failures\/\" >apparently rescuing astronauts from space<\/a>) and in space exploration, but NASA has ambitious plans to return to the moon in the near future.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are three epic space flights from NASA edge-of-space X-15 flights to the upcoming Artemis 2 lunar fly-by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,412,202,9440],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-98280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military","category-nasa","category-space-flight","tag-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98282,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98280\/revisions\/98282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}