{"id":19734,"date":"2012-05-10T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arizona-man-wins-20-minute-space-trip-by-walking-around-seattles-space-needle-halo\/"},"modified":"2012-05-10T22:24:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:24:05","slug":"arizona-man-wins-20-minute-space-trip-by-walking-around-seattles-space-needle-halo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arizona-man-wins-20-minute-space-trip-by-walking-around-seattles-space-needle-halo\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona man wins 20-minute space trip by walking around Seattle\u2019s Space Needle halo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40475\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40475 \" title=\"spaceneedle-competition\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceneedle-competition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceneedle-competition.jpg 498w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceneedle-competition-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceneedle-competition-200x139.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceneedle-competition-143x100.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-40475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just a nice stroll around the Space Needle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gregory Schneider, a 28-year-old father of two from Arizona, beat out more than 50,000 applicants to win a trip to space as part of the Space Needle\u2019s Space Race 2012 program. Schneider was one of five finalists who participated in a three-day set of challenges this week, concluding with the recent law school grad competing against runner-up Sara Cook by climbing to the top of the needle and then answering trivia questions as they walked around the iconic landmark.<\/p>\n<p>The winner was announced by astronaut Buzz Aldrin who marveled at the adventurous spirit of the competitors as they traversed the Space Needle.<\/p>\n<p>Aldrin said that he\u2019s walked on the moon, visited the North Pole and traveled to see the Titanic. \u201cBut you wouldn\u2019t catch me walking around the outside of the Space Needle. I\u2019m afraid of heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After watching this video, shot by KPLU\u2019s Jake Ellison, I\u2019ve got to agree with Mr. Aldrin\u2019s assessment. That looks downright scary. The competition was part of the Space Needle\u2019s 50th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"335\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o0a0sy0z0lg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/object><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Previously on GeekWire<\/strong>:&nbsp;GeekWire Radio: Our future in space, and why it might be closer than we thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a nice stroll around the Space Needle Gregory Schneider, a 28-year-old father of two from Arizona, beat out more than 50,000 applicants to win a trip to space as part of the Space Needle\u2019s Space Race 2012 program. Schneider was one of five finalists who participated in a three-day set of challenges this week, [&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":[21],"class_list":["post-19734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734"}],"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=19734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}