{"id":19732,"date":"2012-06-15T17:12:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-nerds-rejoice-the-super-guppy-is-on-its-way\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:12:56","slug":"space-nerds-rejoice-the-super-guppy-is-on-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-nerds-rejoice-the-super-guppy-is-on-its-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Nerds Rejoice! The Super Guppy is on its way"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45042\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45042\" title=\"SuperGuppy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SuperGuppy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SuperGuppy.jpg 295w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SuperGuppy-200x101.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SuperGuppy-150x76.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-45042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA&#8217;s Super Guppy cargo plane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Calling all space-exploration enthusiasts, aerospace aficionados and other flight geeks: the Museum of Flight announced today that a vital piece of its full-scale Space Shuttle Trainer, the crew cabin section,&nbsp;will arrive June 30 via the NASA plane dubbed the \u201cSuper Guppy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Personally, we were kind of hoping that NASA would\u2019ve come up with something more kick-ass for its space exploration delivery vehicles like: The Hammerhead! Tiger Shark! Or a Pacific NW fave, The Orca! Hell, even Penguin would\u2019ve been better.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, the 28-foot-long piece will be delivered via the Super Guppy cargo plane from NASA in Houston, piloted by Seattle astronaut Greg Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>It will arrive at the Museum for an 11 a.m. ceremony at the Museum after a flyover of Lake Washington and the Seattle Center. Onboard the Super Guppy flight with Johnson will be fellow astronaut Janet Kavandi.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45026\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45026 \" title=\"space shuttle\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/space-shuttle-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/space-shuttle-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/space-shuttle-200x130.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/space-shuttle.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-45026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Cabin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The celebration is free and open to the public, and the Super Guppy will stay on locale in the parking lot throughout the weekend for free tours with admission to the Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The space shuttle piece delivery also kicks off ShuttleFest, a week filled with aerospace delights and lectures from pilots and astronauts and other space-expert nerds that will culminate in a big dance on July 7.<\/p>\n<p>And note to NASA: Please dial up some writers at Marvel before you name your next plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Super Guppy cargo plane Calling all space-exploration enthusiasts, aerospace aficionados and other flight geeks: the Museum of Flight announced today that a vital piece of its full-scale Space Shuttle Trainer, the crew cabin section,&nbsp;will arrive June 30 via the NASA plane dubbed the \u201cSuper Guppy.\u201d Personally, we were kind of hoping that NASA would\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4450,190,1390],"class_list":["post-19732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-museum-of-flight","tag-nasa","tag-space-shuttle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}