{"id":42350,"date":"2005-07-13T22:01:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bush-to-attend-discoverys-launch\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T22:01:25","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:01:25","slug":"bush-to-attend-discoverys-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bush-to-attend-discoverys-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush to attend Discovery\u2019s launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Jeb Bush \u2013 brother of US president George W. Bush \u2013 will be in attendance along with an estimated 500,000 people for the launch of Shuttle Discovery today.  <\/p>\n<p>  Bush will be accompanied by Lt. Gov Toni Jennings \u2013 the Florida Commission on the Future of Space and Aeronautics \u2013 for a meeting with NASA head Mike Griffin after the launch, with the future of the Kennedy Space Center \u2013 and its role after the Shuttle fleet is retired in 2010 \u2013 to be discussed.<br \/>\n<font face=\"Arial\">  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Bush, happy to be talking about something other than Hurricanes which are plighting the local area over the past week, said: \u201cIt\u2019s a big morale booster for thousands and thousands of NASA and space contractor employees,\u201d Bush said. \u201cI mean this is a big exciting day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew administrator, new vision for space \u2013 which creates some trepidation and angst for people but I think its clearly the right way to go \u2013 and this launch, all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discovery\u2019s launch will kick off the final mandate of Shuttle missions \u2013 currently numbered to be 28, although Griffin has already said that will be reduced \u2013 before NASA moves to the new Crew Exploration Vehicle. How much involvement KSC will have with the CEV is still to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to try to elevate our role in all of this with this commission and the recommendations which we\u2019re going to take very seriously,\u201d he added. \u201cSo it\u2019s a very big day tomorrow.\u201d <\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Jeb Bush \u2013 brother of US president George W. Bush \u2013 will be in attendance along with an estimated 500,000 people for the launch of Shuttle Discovery today. Bush will be accompanied by Lt. Gov Toni Jennings \u2013 the Florida Commission on the Future of Space and Aeronautics \u2013 for a meeting with [&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":[],"class_list":["post-42350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42350"}],"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=42350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}