{"id":395455,"date":"2026-09-10T03:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395455\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T03:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:13:21","slug":"artemis-ii-astronaut-christina-koch-named-grand-marshal-for-jacksonville-christmas-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395455\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch named grand marshal for Jacksonville Christmas parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Astronaut and Artemis II crew member Christina Koch will be the grand marshal at the Jacksonville Christmas Holiday Parade hosted by the Jacksonville Onslow Chamber of Commerce, according to the City of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wcti12.com\/news\/local\/artemis-ii-astronaut-christina-koch-returns-to-nc-state-for-homecoming-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In April, Christina Koch left on a historic flight to the moon, but her journey began here in Eastern Carolina. <\/a>The Jacksonville native attended White Oak High School, then went on to graduate from N.C. State.<\/p>\n<p>The astronaut returned to her alma mater for a homecoming event on Aug. 24 and<a href=\"https:\/\/wcti12.com\/news\/local\/jacksonville-native-christina-koch-to-receive-congressional-space-medal-of-honor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> received one of the nation\u2019s highest honors for astronauts on Friday, Aug. 28. Koch and the rest of the Artemis II crew will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor during a ceremony at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut and Artemis II crew member Christina Koch will be the grand marshal at the Jacksonville Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-395455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}