On October 25, 2022, I hit a fairly big personal and professional milestone … I published my 6,000th article on Universe Today! I’ve been writing for UT since November of 2004, so almost exactly 18 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early this year, I happened to look at my tally number on UT’s WordPress (see image above) and noticed I was less than 150 articles away from reaching 6,000. I can honestly say I don’t recall when I hit 5,000 — I guess I wasn’t paying attention! Article number 6,000 was about an image collaboration between Hubble <\/a>and the James Webb Space Telescope, which is fitting for a milestone article, as I’ve been writing about both those telescopes my entire career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the years, I’ve had the chance to interview so many amazing people and write about so many fascinating topics for Universe Today – from how challenging it is going to be to land human-sized payloads on Mars (JPL’s Rob Manning,<\/a>) to why we need to be prepared for an asteroid that might hit Earth (Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart)<\/a>, to some<\/a> of the crazy but intriguing ideas<\/a> from the NASA Innovative Advance Concepts program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m also not sure how many articles I’ve written in total, as I’ve had the opportunity to write for several different online outlets, newspapers and magazines since I started writing in 1999. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But many thanks to my friend and boss Fraser Cain for making it all so much fun at Universe Today! Here’s to 6,000 more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On October 25, 2022, I hit a fairly big personal and professional milestone … I published my 6,000th article on Universe Today! I’ve been writing for UT since November of 2004, so almost exactly 18 years. Early this year, I happened to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,72],"tags":[29,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}