{"id":75323,"date":"2022-07-06T16:26:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=75323"},"modified":"2022-08-10T15:09:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:09:41","slug":"raleigh-astronomy-club-monthly-lecture-curiositys-10th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/raleigh-astronomy-club-monthly-lecture-curiositys-10th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh Astronomy Club Monthly Lecture: Curiosity&#8217;s 10th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plodding ever onward, NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Rover has overcome the difficulties of getting to Mars; battled seven minutes of landing terror; endured brutal Martian elements, and improvised fixes in the face of impending equipment failure to deliver awe-inspiring images and scientific results.\u00a0 Join us as <strong>NASA\/JPL Solar System Ambassador Ken Brandt<\/strong> celebrates 10 years of scientific discovery and innovation from the Curiosity Rover.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ken Brandt is the director of the Robeson Planetarium and Science Center in Lumberton, NC and a NASA\/JPL Solar System Ambassador. He is a US Navy veteran, a former high school teacher, and is Nationally Board Certified. In addition to his duties at the planetarium, he is also an astronomy lecturer at USC Beaufort.\u00a0 When he&#8217;s not teaching about JPL and NASA&#8217;s excellent exploration programs, he is a devoted husband and father of three wonderful daughters, and a grandfather to two excellent grandbabies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plodding ever onward, NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Rover has overcome the difficulties of getting to Mars; battled seven minutes of landing terror; endured brutal Martian elements, and improvised fixes in the face of impending equipment failure to deliver awe-inspiring images and scientific results.\u00a0 Join us as NASA\/JPL Solar System Ambassador Ken Brandt celebrates 10 years of scientific&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/raleigh-astronomy-club-monthly-lecture-curiositys-10th-anniversary\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,4,5,15,8],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/75323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/75323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75323"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=75323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}