{"id":204,"date":"2011-04-07T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T22:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2011-04-14T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T22:21:21","slug":"must-haves-for-the-pampered-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Must-haves for the pampered astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, astronaut Lisa Nowak thrust NASA &#8220;diapers&#8221; into the media spotlight when police in Orlando, Fla., charged her with the attempted kidnapping of U.S. Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman. Although the space agency\u2019s absorption garments were soon the butt of late night talk show monologues everywhere, they were also an elegant solution to an unpleasant engineering challenge\u2014so elegant, in fact, that the story of the moonstruck astronaut inspired at least one company to ape NASA\u2019s design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/innovation\/nasa-inventions\/nasa-change-diapers.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How did NASA change diapers forever?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, astronaut Lisa Nowak thrust NASA &#8220;diapers&#8221; into the media spotlight when police in Orlando, Fla., charged her with the attempted kidnapping of U.S. Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman. Although the space agency\u2019s absorption garments were soon the butt of late night talk show monologues everywhere, they were also an elegant solution to an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Must-haves for the pampered astronaut<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4,3,57,32,13],"tags":[5,79],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-history","category-science","category-space","category-sports","category-technology","tag-inventors","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}