{"id":219907,"date":"2025-12-31T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219907\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:17:07","slug":"jessica-meir-to-serve-as-commander-of-space-x-crew-set-to-launch-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219907\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Meir to serve as commander of Space-X crew set to launch next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BANGOR, Maine (WABI) &#8211; Maine\u2019s own Jessica Meir will serve as the commander of NASA\u2019s Space-X crew, set to launch next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Caribou native will head the twelfth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 20th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Her mission is described as a long-duration science expedition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meir made history in 2019 when she participated in the first all-female spacewalk with Christina Koch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGOR, Maine (WABI) &#8211; Maine\u2019s own Jessica Meir will serve as the commander of NASA\u2019s Space-X crew, set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,113921,82],"class_list":["post-219907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jessica-meir","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}