{"550901":{"#nid":"550901","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Submit Questions for Georgia Tech Astronaut","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech master\u2019s graduate Shane Kimbrough (\u201998, Operations Research) will fly to the International Space Station this September to begin a five-and-a-half-month mission. He and the crew will perform 250 research projects before returning in February. Kimbrough will serve as commander of the space station for three months of his stay.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe retired U.S. Army colonel is one of 14 Georgia Tech astronauts who have flown to space \u2014 \u0026nbsp;he spent 16 days in orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavor in 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Thursday, July 7, Georgia Tech will travel to NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston to talk to Kimbrough about the upcoming mission, his previous spaceflight, and his days at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you have a question for him, tweet to @GeorgiaTech or email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:socialmedia@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esocialmedia@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6. We\u2019ll select several questions to ask Kimbrough on camera. They will be shared in the coming weeks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/kimbrough-rs.pdf\u0022\u003ERead Kimbrough\u2019s biography. \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Shane Kimbrough will launch into space in September"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech master\u2019s graduate Shane Kimbrough (\u201998, Operations Research) will fly to the International Space Station this September to begin a five-and-a-half-month mission. The Georgia Tech community is encouraged to send questions via email or Twitter.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Shane Kimbrough will launch into space in September and stay on the International Space Station for more than five months."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2016-07-05 16:21:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:04","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"550891":{"id":"550891","type":"image","title":"Shane Kimbrough","body":null,"created":"1467817200","gmt_created":"2016-07-06 15:00:00","changed":"1475895348","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:48","alt":"Shane Kimbrough","file":{"fid":"92798","name":"25563838860_4f07436837_k.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/25563838860_4f07436837_k.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/25563838860_4f07436837_k.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1447579,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/25563838860_4f07436837_k.jpg?itok=XHQ7pIM0"}}},"media_ids":["550891"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astro_kimbrough","title":"Follow Shane Kimbrough on Twitter"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/kimbrough-rs.pdf","title":"Shane Kimbrough\u0027s Biography"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"170906","name":"Shane Kimbrough"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["socialmedia@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}