{"id":3925,"date":"2011-05-08T23:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T06:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2011-05-09T01:36:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:36:54","slug":"flowchart-should-you-give-up-your-dream-of-being-an-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/08\/flowchart-should-you-give-up-your-dream-of-being-an-astronaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowchart: Should You Give Up Your Dream of Being an Astronaut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/flowchart-should-you-give-up-your-dream-of-being-an-astronaut\/?utm_content=headline&amp;utm_medium=hp_carousel&amp;utm_source=slide_2\" target=\"_blank\">good.is<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a rough week for those of us who still harbor childhood dreams of a career in outer space. NASA is about to launch its second-to-last shuttle mission and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/science\/space\/2011-05-05-astronaut-corps-evolves_n.htm\">isn&#8217;t even accepting applications<\/a> from aspiring astronauts. Plus the hunt for extraterrestrial life is on hold due to <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2011\/05\/cost-of-funding-seti-vs-a-citibank-execs-bonus.html\">budget cuts<\/a>. But if you still think space is the final frontier, let this flowchart be your guidance counselor:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/TceiPOlv2MI\/AAAAAAAANt4\/oT36a-JKz9o\/s1600\/full_1304722830space_flowchart_006.png\" alt=\"NASA, SETI, Astronauts, Space shuttle, Launch, GOOD, Flowchart, Science Fiction, Battlestar Gallactica\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Bonus:Never retreat. Never surrender.<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/TceiSrPygnI\/AAAAAAAANt8\/usBQEqwVd3o\/s640\/cS6Mc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by good.is It&#8217;s been a rough week for those of us who still harbor childhood dreams of a career in outer space. NASA is about to launch its second-to-last shuttle mission and isn&#8217;t even accepting applications from aspiring astronauts. Plus the hunt for extraterrestrial life is on hold due to budget cuts. But if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}