{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/a10fcc2c-a93b-449a-a211-94a799c8c618/4d012ef5-2aa8-428a-aa62-3002fc1d9886?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Would-Be Astronaut","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b7a17e169562564ae952b9/61b7a1983679560012c63059.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Brian Shiro really wants to go to space. He wants to go to space so badly, in fact, that he’s applied to NASA’s astronaut program. Twice. Both times he fell just short. He’s hoping the third time’s the charm.</p>\r\n<p>Until then, he’ll be heading up <a href=\"http://www.astronauts4hire.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Astronauts4Hire</a>, an appropriately-named astronaut contracting service. Wth A4H, Brian hopes to open doors for aspiring astronauts to the burgeoning commercial space industry, and also provide flight and simulation training to pad their resumés.</p>\r\n<p>I first learned about Brian’s story while editing a profile of him published a few weeks ago <a href=\"http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-failed-astronaut\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">on Motherboard</a>. The story was written by Sarah Scoles, an ace science writer (who, in a past life, did research on <a href=\"http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-giant-endangered-cosmic-ear-inside-americas-cell-phone-black-hole\" rel=\"nofollow\"...","author_name":"VICE"}