{"id":9291,"date":"2022-02-03T08:11:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:11:20","slug":"homecoming-2021-was-out-of-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2022\/02\/03\/homecoming-2021-was-out-of-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming 2021 Was Out of This World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Georgia Southern celebrated its NASA-affiliated alumni with Homecoming 2021: Eagles in Outer Space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to alumni mixers and networking events, homecoming featured a NASA career panel with Jim Kennedy (’77), former director, Kennedy Space Center; Bob Pound (’67), former chief of test operations, Kennedy Space Center; and Andy Warren (’87), manager, SLS Cross Program Integration, Marshall Space Flight Center \u2014 all of whom were also special guests in the Homecoming Parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students also enjoyed a wide variety of events, and participated in fundraisers and competitions to help their peers. Student organizations on the Statesboro and Armstrong campuses raised more than $6,300 for the Eagles for Eagles fund, which provides resources for students in need, and they collected 8,301 canned goods for the Eagle Essentials Food Pantry and the Statesboro Food Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Georgia Southern celebrated its NASA-affiliated alumni with Homecoming 2021: Eagles in Outer Space. In addition to alumni mixers and networking events, homecoming featured a NASA career panel with Jim Kennedy (’77), former director, Kennedy Space Center; Bob Pound (’67), former chief of test operations, Kennedy Space Center; and Andy Warren (’87), manager, SLS Cross Program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":9303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-winter-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}