{"id":614,"date":"2013-03-12T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T21:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/thisisus\/?p=614"},"modified":"2013-03-12T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T21:18:13","slug":"hall-of-fame-astronaut-talks-about-his-career-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/thisisus\/2013\/03\/12\/hall-of-fame-astronaut-talks-about-his-career-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame Astronaut Talks About His Career in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This is Us:  Karol &quot;Bo&quot; Bobko\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KawKfMul210?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some people seem to have a destiny and that\u2019s the case with Karol \u201cBo\u201d Bobko, a member of the Astronaut Hall of Fame.  A resident of Half Moon Bay, Bobko grew up in New York and was a member of the very first graduating class of the Air Force Academy in 1959.   After being accepted into the NASA Astronaut program it would take 12 long years before Bobko would achieve his dreams of flying in space.  Bobko was the pilot on the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (STS-6), the commander for Discovery (STS-51-D) and commander for the maiden flight of Atlantis (STS-51-J).  Bobko has also seen his share of heartbreak while working with NASA.  He was a close friend of the crew of the ill-fated Challenger flight that occurred on January 26, 1986.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people seem to have a destiny and that\u2019s the case with Karol \u201cBo\u201d Bobko, a member of the Astronaut Hall of Fame. A resident of Half Moon Bay, Bobko grew up in New York and was a member of the very first graduating class of the Air Force Academy in 1959. 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