{"id":129468,"date":"2026-03-04T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129468\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:00:07","slug":"astronaut-paul-richards-marks-mission-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129468\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Paul Richards marks mission anniversary\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, PA \u2014 On Sunday, March 8, beginning at 1 p.m., the Everhart Museum will host astronaut Paul Richards in an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the STS-102 mission. A meet-and-greet taking place between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. will be included in museum admission costs. A VIP event and presentation takes place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the museum.<\/p>\n<p>The STS-102 mission took Americans to the International Space Station, and Richards, a NASA mission specialist, is a Dunmore native.<\/p>\n<p>During the VIP portion, Richard will discuss the mission and his contributions to the International Space Station, as well as aspects of the Everhart\u2019s current exhibition Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe. The VIP portion includes light fare and a bar with beer and wine (first two drinks are complimentary). Register at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everhart-museum.org\/products\/sts-102\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.everhart-museum.org\/products\/sts-102<\/a>\u00a0to attend the VIP portion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, PA \u2014 On Sunday, March 8, beginning at 1 p.m., the Everhart Museum will host astronaut Paul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60193,60194,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-129468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-astronaut-paul-richards","tag-mission-anniversary","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}