{"id":12968,"date":"2012-01-09T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12968"},"modified":"2012-01-09T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:56:38","slug":"darpa-appoints-former-astronaut-to-lead-100-year-starship-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/darpa-appoints-former-astronaut-to-lead-100-year-starship-project\/","title":{"rendered":"DARPA appoints former astronaut to lead 100-year starship project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/01\/09\/former_astronaut_starship_plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brid-Aine Parnell<\/a> works the <em>Star Trek<\/em> angle on the appointment of former NASA astronaut Dr Mae Jemison as the head of the 100-year Starship project:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dr-Mae-Jemison.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dr Mae Jemison\" width=\"230\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dr-Mae-Jemison.jpg 230w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dr-Mae-Jemison-118x150.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>The agency had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication, and has not yet announced the appointment publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jemison, who has a degree in chemical engineering and a doctorate in medicine, was the science mission specialist on the STS-47 Spacelab-J in 1992 and logged over 190 hours in space.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being a bona fide boffin, Jemison also spent time in the IT trenches, working in computer programming, among other things, before joining NASA.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also no stranger to the ideas behind a starship, since, as a long-time Star Trek fan, she had a bit part in one episode of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The episode, entitled <em>Second Chances<\/em>, must surely go down as evidence of her remarkable patience and forbearance, since it featured the two most irritating TNG characters, Commander Riker and Deanna Troi, rather prominently.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brid-Aine Parnell works the Star Trek angle on the appointment of former NASA astronaut Dr Mae Jemison as the head of the 100-year Starship project: The agency had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication, and has not yet announced the appointment publicly. Dr Jemison, who has a degree in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,15,13],"tags":[582,69,513,716],"class_list":["post-12968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","category-technology","category-usa","tag-darpa","tag-nasa","tag-research","tag-spacecraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3na","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12972,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968\/revisions\/12972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}