{"id":4150,"date":"2013-08-26T05:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T05:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2013-08-26T05:43:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T05:43:43","slug":"nastar-education-director-selected-as-citizens-in-space-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4150","title":{"rendered":"NASTAR education director selected as Citizens in Space astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a profile of Greg Kennedy, director of education for the <a title=\"http:\/\/www.nastarcenter.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nastarcenter.com\/\" target=\"_BLANK\">NASTAR Center<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/citizensinspace.org\" target=\"_blank\">Citizens in Space<\/a> civilian astronaut selectee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/00redesign\/business\/lower-southampton-man-chosen-as-a-civilian-astronaut\/article_ef4ab3a9-a735-5482-8875-55133e0d5dbd.html\" target=\"_d\">Lower Southampton man chosen as a civilian astronaut &#8211; phillyburbs.com: Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"321\" id=\"limelight_player_52957o\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/assets.delvenetworks.com\/player\/loader.swf\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"channelId=bfa334422e994562b0c65a671f1caa55&amp;deepLink=true&amp;playerForm=Player&amp;mediaId=a90a2d7ef42c416eb500939b3e4f4dd2\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a profile of Greg Kennedy, director of education for the NASTAR Center and a Citizens in Space civilian astronaut selectee: Lower Southampton man chosen as a civilian astronaut &#8211; phillyburbs.com: Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,14,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-space-participation","category-spaceflight-parabolic-flight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-14W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4322,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4322","url_meta":{"origin":4150,"position":0},"title":"Citizens astronauts complete suborbital scientist course","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from Citizens in Space: Citizen Astronauts Complete Suborbital Scientist Course Training, Evaluating New Medical Technology at NASTAR Center Southampton, PA (Sept 5, 2013) \u2013\u00a0Citizens in Space\u00a0announced that four astronaut candidates have completed Suborbital Scientist training at the National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center, a premier aviation and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3641,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3641","url_meta":{"origin":4150,"position":1},"title":"Citizens in Space selects Greg Kennedy as astronaut candidate","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from Citizens in Space: Greg Kennedy Joins Citizen Astronaut Corps Citizens in Space, a project of the United States Rocket Academy, has announced the selection of its fifth citizen-astronaut candidate. 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