{"id":890,"date":"2015-10-21T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T22:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2015-10-21T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T22:08:21","slug":"who-names-nasas-space-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Who Names NASA&#8217;s Space Probes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/now.howstuffworks.com\/2015\/10\/15\/naming-nasa-spacecraft\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e7\/New_horizons_%28NASA%29.jpg\" alt=\"Early artist's conception of New Horizons, courtesy of NASA.\" width=\"266\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early artist&#8217;s conception of New Horizons, courtesy of NASA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The latest NASA space probes to make the news have zoomed to the farthest reaches of the solar system, and their names \u2013 Pluto&#8217;s New Horizons, comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko&#8217;s Rosetta and Philae \u2013 reflect the ambition and spirit of discovery behind them.<\/p>\n<p>But who gets to pick those evocative names, and is there any pattern that ties them together? Read on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/now.howstuffworks.com\/2015\/10\/15\/naming-nasa-spacecraft\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s Way Cooler Than Naming a Kid? Naming a NASA Spacecraft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest NASA space probes to make the news have zoomed to the farthest reaches of the solar system, and their names \u2013 Pluto&#8217;s New Horizons, comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko&#8217;s Rosetta and Philae \u2013 reflect the ambition and spirit of discovery behind them. But who gets to pick those evocative names, and is there any pattern that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who Names NASA&#8217;s Space Probes?<\/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":[94,4,57,13],"tags":[223,1028,274,79,58,130,99,221,150],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-history","category-space","category-technology","tag-astronaut","tag-cortright-system","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-planets","tag-robotics","tag-rockets","tag-satellites","tag-space-shuttle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}