{"id":23192,"date":"2025-09-23T00:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=23192"},"modified":"2025-09-23T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:09:41","slug":"nasa-introduces-new-astronaut-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=23192","title":{"rendered":"NASA Introduces New Astronaut Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: NASA Introduces New Astronaut Candidates<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">NASA Introduces New Astronaut Candidates<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">NASA announced 10 new candidates to begin training as astronauts as part of a plan to send more astronauts to new space stations, the moon and maybe Mars.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Ten American men and women will begin their basic training that spans two years to eventually earn their wings and join NASA\u2019s active astronaut corps.\u201d \u201cAll of these efforts are positioning us for our next giant leap, one that ushers in a new golden age of innovation and exploration.\u201d \u201cThe astronaut candidates we announced today will help us get there. They were selected from a pool of about 8,000 applicants because they represent America\u2019s finest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: NASA Introduces New Astronaut Candidates transcript Back transcript NASA Introduces New Astronaut Candidates NASA announced 10 new candidates to begin training as astronauts as part of a plan to send more astronauts to new space stations, the moon and maybe Mars. Ten American men and women will begin their basic training that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2536,6826,2066,3331],"class_list":{"0":"post-23192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-astronaut","9":"tag-candidates","10":"tag-introduces","11":"tag-nasa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}