{"id":236829,"date":"2021-10-13T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=236829"},"modified":"2021-10-13T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:22:17","slug":"shatner-and-others-return-safely-from-space-wed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=236829","title":{"rendered":"Shatner and others return safely from space, Wed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-236831\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Shatner-returns-space-flight-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Shatner-returns-space-flight-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Shatner-returns-space-flight-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Shatner-returns-space-flight-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Shatner-returns-space-flight-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Shatner-returns-space-flight.jpg 1913w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VAN HORN, Texas (AP)\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/business\/live-news\/william-shatner-blue-origin-space-flight\/h_eb6e63592ee4ac4c6bc59d3cd7bb6c0e\">CNN<\/a>) \u2014 Hollywood\u2019s Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, has blasted into space and safely returned to Earth in a convergence of science fiction and science reality. He set out Wednesday morning for the final frontier aboard a ship built by Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin company. The \u201cStar Trek\u201d hero becomes the oldest person to ride a rocket. The fully automatic spacecraft reached an estimated altitude of 66 miles over the West Texas desert. The up-and-down flight lasted about 10 minutes, with Shatner and his three fellow passengers parachuting back to Earth in the capsule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VAN HORN, Texas (AP)\u00a0 (CNN) \u2014 Hollywood\u2019s Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, has blasted into space and safely returned to Earth in a convergence of science fiction and science reality. He set out Wednesday morning for the final frontier aboard a ship built by Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin company. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236832,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236829\/revisions\/236832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}