{"id":98880838,"date":"2012-01-23T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/nasa-training-shuttle-to-land-at-seattle-museum-of-flight\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:22:25","slug":"nasa-training-shuttle-to-land-at-seattle-museum-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/nasa-training-shuttle-to-land-at-seattle-museum-of-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Training Shuttle to Land at Seattle Museum of Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, officials at the Seattle Museum of Flight were disappointed to learn that the museum would not be receiving one of NASA\u2019s retired space shuttles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They looked on helplessly as shuttles landed at other museums in Florida, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, it turns out space fanatics in Seattle won\u2019t be snubbed altogether after all. The Museum of Flight will get a doozy of consolation prize this summer when NASA\u2019s Full Fuselage Trainer lands in Seattle for good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Trainer is a full-scale mock shuttle that astronauts have used for practice missions since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And unlike the real deal shuttles, the Trainer will be open for visitors to explore. That means museum-goers will get to board the makeshift craft and sit where actual astronauts trained!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2012\/01\/22\/training-shuttle-to-be-displayed-in-seattles-museum-of-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gadling <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CC Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dph1110\/2672400152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Herrera <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, officials at the Seattle Museum of Flight were disappointed to learn that the museum would not be receiving one of NASA\u2019s retired space shuttles. &nbsp; They looked on helplessly as shuttles landed at other museums in Florida, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and New York City. &nbsp; However, it turns out space fanatics in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897613,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880838\/revisions\/98897613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}