{"id":51542,"date":"2018-06-26T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T09:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=51542"},"modified":"2018-06-26T09:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T09:33:03","slug":"peggy-whitson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/peggy-whitson\/","title":{"rendered":"Peggy Whitson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- Recently Peggy Whitson was in the news. She is a-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Scientist<br \/>\n(b) Actress<br \/>\n(c) Literature<br \/>\n(d) Astronaut<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (d)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 15<sup>th<\/sup> June, 2018 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who holds the U.S. record for most cumulative time in space, became retired.<\/li>\n<li>Whitson has had been the female commander twice in International Space Station.<\/li>\n<li>She has also a record of being the first woman commander of ISS.<\/li>\n<li>With her return, his 288-day mission ended.<\/li>\n<li>This mission began in the month of November last year.<\/li>\n<li>Under this mission, a distance of 12.22 crores was travelled and 4623 rounds of earth were taken.<\/li>\n<li>This was his third long term mission at the Space Center.<\/li>\n<li>With this one the number of total spacewalks of her career has increased to 10.<\/li>\n<li>She spent a total of 665 days in space, which is the record of the most time spent by an American astronaut.<\/li>\n<li>She has also been the oldest female astronaut to participate in space exploration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/record-setting-nasa-astronaut-peggy-whitson-retires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/record-setting-nasa-astronaut-peggy-whitson-retires<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/peggy-a-whitson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/peggy-a-whitson<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40909-record-breaking-nasa-astronaut-peggy-whitson-retires.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/40909-record-breaking-nasa-astronaut-peggy-whitson-retires.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- Recently Peggy Whitson was in the news. She is a- (a) Scientist (b) Actress (c) Literature (d) Astronaut Answer: (d)\u00a0 Related Facts: On 15th June, 2018 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who holds the U.S. record for most cumulative time in space, became retired. Whitson has had been the female commander twice in International Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-51542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}