{"id":2350,"date":"2025-10-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:08:12","slug":"nasa-astronaut-class-appears-to-be-first-without-black-recruits-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/nasa-astronaut-class-appears-to-be-first-without-black-recruits-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut class appears to be first without Black recruits in 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nasa-astronaut-class-appears-to-be-first-without-black-recru_w5x1.640.jpg\">But women outnumber men in the 2025 class.<\/p>\n<p>When<strong> <\/strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/nasa\">NASA<\/a><\/u> announced its 10 newest astronaut trainees during a recent ceremony, the women on stage outnumbered the men for the first time in the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\">space<\/a><\/u> agency&#8217;s history: Six of the recruits who will train for future missions to the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/22168\/nasa-is-back-in-the-moon-business-heres-what-that-means\">moon<\/a><\/u> \u2014 and potentially <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/61219\/curiosity-rover-snaps-breathtaking-photos-of-the-martian-landscape\">Mars<\/a><\/u> \u2014 \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But women outnumber men in the 2025 class. When NASA announced its 10 newest astronaut trainees during a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}