{"id":133233,"date":"2026-03-09T04:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133233\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:37:06","slug":"dunmore-native-celebrates-the-25th-anniversary-of-nasas-space-shuttle-mission-to-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133233\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunmore native celebrates the 25th anniversary of NASA&#8217;s space shuttle mission to the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Richards, Dunmore native and mission specialist, celebrated the 25th anniversary of NASA&#8217;s STS-102 while teaching folks what it takes to be an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>, folks had the opportunity to learn about what it takes to be an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>Dunmore native and mission specialist Paul Richards celebrated the 25th anniversary of NASA&#8217;s STS-102, a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The event at the Everhart Museum in Scranton included various space exploration items on display as well as a chance for fans to meet Richards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is great, giving that I was so blessed to have done this. I always feel it&#8217;s obligation to share it, but it&#8217;s extra special to come to the hometown and share it with friends and family,&#8221; said Richards.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Hubble Space Telescope&#8217; was also included in today&#8217;s display which will be available to view through July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Richards, Dunmore native and mission specialist, celebrated the 25th anniversary of NASA&#8217;s STS-102 while teaching folks what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-133233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133233","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=133233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}