{"id":6279,"date":"2026-07-29T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:40:03","slug":"nasa-was-created-in-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6279","title":{"rendered":"NASA Was Created in 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14314\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14314\" class=\"wp-image-14314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/astronauts-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"144\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mercury Seven Astronauts<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958 when President Eisenhower signed the act. <\/strong>The Mercury Seven were the first group of astronauts. The number of astronauts peaked at 149 in the year 2000. Currently 41 active astronauts serve our country. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958 when President Eisenhower signed the act. The Mercury Seven were the first group of astronauts. The number of astronauts peaked at 149 in the year 2000. Currently 41 active astronauts serve our country. Children can learn more at: NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4472,918,5752,917,916],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4472","tag-eisenhower","tag-july-29","tag-nasa","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30137,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions\/30137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}