{"id":19960,"date":"2018-01-28T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19960"},"modified":"2018-01-28T22:13:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T21:13:06","slug":"countdown-to-space-walking-with-an-astronaut-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19960","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Space Walking with an Astronaut in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/20182804.jpg\" alt=\"Space Walking\" \/><br \/>\nOne of NASA&#8217;s most experienced veteran astronauts, British born Dr.Michael Foale, will be in Abingdon this week. The picture shows him taking part in an epic eight-hour spacewalk in 1999 to upgrade the computer on the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Telescope continues to bring images and discoveries eighteen years on.<\/p>\n<p>He will be giving a public lecture at the Amey Theatre at 7:30pm on Tuesday 30th January.<\/p>\n<p>At the last count (21:07 on 28\/01\/2018) there were just 16 tickets in the theatre upstairs and down. The countdown is on. There may still be tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/abingdonschool.savoysystems.co.uk\/AbingdonSchool.dll\/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_1428.TcsWebTab_1429.TcsProgramme_379029\">available from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of NASA&#8217;s most experienced veteran astronauts, British born Dr.Michael Foale, will be in Abingdon this week. The picture shows him taking part in an epic eight-hour spacewalk in 1999 to upgrade the computer on the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Telescope continues to bring images and discoveries eighteen years on. He will be giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}