{"id":46502,"date":"2025-09-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=7c113d31564607ea278278469ead488f"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:00:00","slug":"after-almost-20-years-helping-to-operate-rovers-on-mars-nasa-geologist-and-astronaut-candidate-lauren-edgar-says-stepping-foot-on-the-red-planet-would-be-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2025\/09\/27\/after-almost-20-years-helping-to-operate-rovers-on-mars-nasa-geologist-and-astronaut-candidate-lauren-edgar-says-stepping-foot-on-the-red-planet-would-be-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"After almost 20 years helping to operate rovers on Mars, NASA geologist and astronaut candidate Lauren Edgar says stepping foot on the Red Planet &#8216;would be a dream&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                             Edgar once designed science experiments for astronauts to perform. Now she'll be the astronaut performing them. \n                                                                                                            ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                             Edgar once designed science experiments for astronauts to perform. Now she&#8217;ll be the astronaut performing them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[404,437,477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-mars","category-solar-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46503,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46502\/revisions\/46503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}