{"id":463671,"date":"2026-03-08T03:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463671\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:54:13","slug":"astronaut-tim-peake-leaves-scouts-starry-eyed-at-hut-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463671\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Tim Peake leaves scouts starry-eyed at hut opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peake&#8217;s visit would be inspirational, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;ll be cutting the ribbon and we have a special plaque for him, which will be unveiled as well, at the end,&#8221; Scholfield said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 50 scouts aged four to 14 from the 5th Haywards Heath Scout Group attended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peake said when he was in space batteries, pencils, pens and a pair of scissors all floated past during spacewalks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday he left his scissors, to open the centre, in his car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to need them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peake&#8217;s visit would be inspirational, he said. &#8220;He&#8217;ll be cutting the ribbon and we have a special plaque&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-463671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}