{"id":1788,"date":"2016-02-16T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.ncsu.edu\/?p=203097"},"modified":"2016-02-16T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:37:48","slug":"blast-off-with-alumna-christina-hammock-koch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/2016\/blast-off-with-alumna-christina-hammock-koch\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast Off with Alumna Christina Hammock Koch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/images\/2016\/02\/hammock1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230035 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Christina-Koch-main-848x477_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"240\" \/>NC State and ECE alumna Christina Hammock Koch is one of eight recent graduates of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170104223221\/http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a>&#8216;s 21<sup>st<\/sup>astronaut class.<\/p>\n<p>She will visit Raleigh and her alma mater this weekend for several events to talk about her path from NC State&#8217;s University Scholars Program to earning degrees in physics and electrical engineering to joining the space program.<\/p>\n<p>She is a featured guest at Raleigh&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170104223221\/http:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/astronomy-days\/2016-01-30\/\">Astronomy Days\u00a0<\/a>at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences this weekend, giving talks at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, she is the featured speaker at the University Scholars Program Forum at 3 p.m. at Stewart Theatre in the Talley Student Union. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Christina was inducted into the 2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170104223221\/http:\/\/www.ece.ncsu.edu\/alumni\/hall_of_fame_2015#hammock\">ECE Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170104223221\/https:\/\/news.ncsu.edu\/2016\/01\/alumna-astronaut-appears-at-stewart\/\">NC State News<\/a>\u00a0article &#8220;Alumna Astronaut Appears at Stewart&#8221; by Tim Peeler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/images\/2016\/02\/hammock1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">She will visit Raleigh and her alma mater this weekend for several events to talk about her path from NC State&#8217;s University Scholars Program to earning degrees in physics and electrical engineering to joining the space program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}