{"id":335604,"date":"2017-03-12T03:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/11\/astronaut-jessica-meir-nasa-tumblr-answer-time\/21|21879941"},"modified":"2017-03-12T03:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T19:29:00","slug":"astronaut-jessica-meir-will-answer-your-questions-on-tumblr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/astronaut-jessica-meir-will-answer-your-questions-on-tumblr\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Jessica Meir will answer your questions on Tumblr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can also ask Meir, a biologist who studied the physiology of animals in extreme environments, what it&#8217;s like to be an aquanaut for NEEMO. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/07\/22\/nasa-astronauts-head-underwater-to-simulate-mars-missions\/\">NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations<\/a> serve as testing ground for new equipment astronauts will use in space. She lived in an underwater habitat back in 2002 for the fourth NEEMO expedition and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/why-nasa-astronauts-just-spent-week-living-in-cave\">in a cave<\/a> for a week last year for the ESA&#8217;s Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising mission.<\/p>\n<p>Meir wants to become one of the first astronauts to set foot on Mars and is now training for her first expedition. While you won&#8217;t be hearing back from her until 4:30, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/nasa.tumblr.com\/ask\">send in your queries<\/a> right now through NASA&#8217;s Tumblr account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/457efa256a2be837815ba704da682507\/205041464\/jessica-meir.jpg\" \/>If you&#039;ve got dreams of donning a spacesuit and going on trips outside the planet, don&#039;t miss Tumblr&#039;s Answer Time session today, March 11th. NASA&#039;s Jessica Meir will answer your questions starting at 4:30PM Eastern time, and it&#039;s a great chance to a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-335604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}