<filename>extractor/extractedDailyData/1998-04-04.json
{
  "title": "Mercury Astronauts and a Redstone",
  "credit": "NASA",
  "explanation": "Space suited project Mercury astronauts <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME>. (left to right) are posing in front of a Redstone rocket in this vintage 1961 NASA publicity photo. Project Mercury was the first U.S. program designed to put humans in space. It resulted in 6 flights using one-man capsules and Redstone and Atlas rockets. Shortly after the first U.S. manned flight on May 5, 1961, a suborbital flight piloted by <NAME>, President Kennedy announced the goal of a manned lunar landing by 1970. This goal was achieved by NASA's Apollo program and <NAME> walked on the moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission. <NAME> died in a tragic fire during an Apollo launch pad test in 1967. Senator <NAME> will fly again on the 25th voyage of the Space Shuttle Discovery.",
  "date": "1998-04-04",
  "hdurl": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/9704/merc_astronaut_big.jpg",
  "service_version": "v1",
  "media_type": "image",
  "url": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/9704/merc_astronaut.jpg"
}