{"id":46964,"date":"2017-10-04T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=46964"},"modified":"2017-10-04T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T17:08:25","slug":"the-planetary-post-welcomes-shatner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/10\/the-planetary-post-welcomes-shatner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Planetary Post Welcomes Shatner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest edition of <em>The Planetary Post<\/em>, hosted by <strong>Robert Picardo<\/strong>, Picardo welcomes <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> aboard for a special mission.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of <em>Voyager<\/em> 1&#8217;s launch,<em> NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/em> held a contest. One lucky person&#8217;s words were chosen to broadcast to <em>Voyager 1<\/em> from Mission Control.<\/p>\n<p>That winner,<strong> Oliver Jenkins<\/strong>, wrote: &#8220;We offer friendship across the stars. You are not alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those words were spoken by Shatner who went to Mission Control to deliver the special message across space.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics on this month&#8217;s <em>Planetary Post<\/em> include Cassini&#8217;s Grand Finale, the <em>OSIRIS-REx<\/em> Flyby, and <strong>Bill Nye<\/strong> at the (<em>International Astronautical Congress<\/em> (<em>IAC<\/em>), where he discussed an update on the new LightSail 2 Animation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVI4lwkIFvg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest edition of The Planetary Post, hosted by Robert Picardo, Picardo welcomes William&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2426,2414,8801],"class_list":["post-46964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-picardo","tag-shatner","tag-the-planetary-post"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ThePlanetaryPost100417.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46966,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46964\/revisions\/46966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}