{"id":4174,"date":"2009-06-03T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:41:07","slug":"cirque-du-soleil-founder-going-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/cirque-du-soleil-founder-going-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirque du Soleil founder going into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4177\" title=\"Guy LaLiberte\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/guy-laliberte.jpg\" alt=\"Guy LaLiberte\" width=\"213\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8212; A website that covers NASA is reporting that Guy Laliberte, the founder of the Cirque du soleil, will visit the International Space Station this September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NASA Watch,&#8221; which has no official links with the American space agency, says it has learned from multiple sources that Laliberte will fly into orbit aboard a Soyuz spacecraft .<\/p>\n<p>Also see:\u00a0http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20090604\/sc_space\/acrobattobenextspacetourist<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Renee-Claude Menard, a Cirque spokeswoman, was not immediately available for comment but a message on her voice mail indicated she is on a business trip to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Space Agency is holding a news conference at its Montreal-area headquarters on Thursday to announce what it calls the first philanthropic mission to the space station by a private Canadian explorer.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement is also being made simultaneously in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Space Adventures, the company that helps book space flights, would not confirm that Laliberte is the next Canadian space traveller.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Tearne said from Virginia that an announcement would be made on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press MONTREAL &#8212; A website that covers NASA is reporting that Guy Laliberte, the founder of the Cirque du soleil, will visit the International Space Station this September. &#8220;NASA Watch,&#8221; which has no official links with the American space agency, says it has learned from multiple sources that Laliberte will fly into orbit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2840,2850,2854,2839,4102,143,200,2842,2848,2853,2845,429,2847,2843,2841,2851,2849,2844,2852,2846],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-15k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}