{"id":78191,"date":"2020-01-13T11:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=78191"},"modified":"2020-01-13T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:09:55","slug":"space-unites-us-first-iranian-american-astronaut-reaches-for-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/space-unites-us-first-iranian-american-astronaut-reaches-for-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Space unites us\u2019 First Iranian-American astronaut reaches for stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jasmin \u2018Jaws\u2019 Moghbeli earned her fierce nickname during her time as a decorated helicopter gunship pilot who flew more than 150 missions in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine Corps major, MIT graduate and college basketball player can now add another accomplishment to her burgeoning resume: the first Iranian-American astronaut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking after graduating in NASA&#8217;s latest cohort, the 36-year-old immigrant said she hoped her example might help inspire others from similar backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I would love for everyone to be able to be inspired by everyone, but it is a little easier to be inspired by someone who looks like you or has something in common with you, so I do hope there is that influence,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But once I joined, they gave me absolute support,&#8221; she said, crediting the backing of her family, and later her partner Sam, whom she married three months ago, for her success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump tore up the landmark nuclear deal signed by his predecessor and added Iran to a list of mainly Muslim countries whose nationals are banned from entering the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasmin \u2018Jaws\u2019 Moghbeli earned her fierce nickname during her time as a decorated helicopter gunship pilot who flew more than 150 missions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78193,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78191\/revisions\/78193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}