{"id":512,"date":"2008-06-25T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/06\/25\/live-from-the-international-space-station-to-baylor\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:49:07","slug":"live-from-the-international-space-station-to-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/06\/live-from-the-international-space-station-to-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Live, from the International Space Station to Baylor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/iss-17.jpg\" alt=\"ISS-17\" align=\"right\" \/>This morning, visitors to the Mayborn Museum Complex will get to hear astronaut Greg Chamitoff discuss life in space &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/mayborn\/index.php?id=55518\" target=\"_blank\">live from the International Space Station<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Chamitoff is in the middle of a six-month stay at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Space_Station\" target=\"_blank\">space station<\/a>, which orbits the planet over 200 miles above Earth&#8217;s surface. Traveling nearly 18,000 miles an hour, the space station circles the Earth more than 15 times a day. During his talk today, the space station will be tracked on screen and contact will be maintained until the station disappears over the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the folks at Mayborn, a whole herd of people have come together to make this happen at Baylor:  ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station), the Baylor Amateur Radio Club, the Heart of Texas Amateur Radio Club, and Robinson Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, space station speakers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, visitors to the Mayborn Museum Complex will get to hear astronaut Greg Chamitoff discuss life in space &#8212; live from the International Space Station! Chamitoff is in the middle of a six-month stay at the space station, which orbits the planet over 200 miles above Earth&#8217;s surface. Traveling nearly 18,000 miles an hour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}