{"id":9674,"date":"2024-02-07T05:10:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/?p=9674"},"modified":"2024-02-07T05:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:28:18","slug":"honoring-black-astronauts-during-black-history-month-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2024\/02\/07\/honoring-black-astronauts-during-black-history-month-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Black Astronauts During Black History Month 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/Honoring Black Astronauts During Black History Month 2024\">Black History Month &#8211; explore the contributions of black astronauts .<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9679 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-07-at-5.25.30-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Black astronauts have played key roles in the assembly of the International Space Station, performing numerous spacewalks and robotic operations, and conducting research as expedition crew-members.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Few people know that since as early as 1791, Black Americans have been making groundbreaking, often heroic, contributions in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, mathematics, and space exploration.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-1\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Many of these pioneering Black scientists performed vital mathematical and engineering work in the face of laws that prevented them from drinking from the same water fountains or using the same bathrooms as their white co-workers. Fortunately, today\u2019s recognition of the benefits of racial inclusivity has resulted in a richly diverse and incredibly talented group of scientists and astronauts uniquely capable of taking us deeper into that night sky\u2014to Mars and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZlTgo2AavzE?si=oiz1ybul6Odfyo_q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black History Month &#8211; explore the contributions of black astronauts . Black astronauts have played key roles in the assembly of the International Space Station, performing numerous spacewalks and robotic operations, and conducting research as expedition crew-members. Few people know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2024\/02\/07\/honoring-black-astronauts-during-black-history-month-2024\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9682,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions\/9682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}