{"id":4358,"date":"2009-07-17T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2019-07-18T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:01:32","slug":"an-orange-an-astronaut-almost-a-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/an-orange-an-astronaut-almost-a-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"An orange. An astronaut. Almost a mascot."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4355\" style=\"max-width: 216px;\" class=\"figure float-left\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img size-medium img-fluid w-100 wp-image-4355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2017\/07\/cover-bmoc1.jpg\" alt=\"The Citronaut appeared on the cover of UCF's (then FTU) first student handbook\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img size-medium img-fluid w-100 wp-image-4355 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"The Citronaut appeared on the cover of UCF's (then FTU) first student handbook\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2017\/07\/cover-bmoc1.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">The Citronaut appeared on the cover of UCF&#8217;s (then FTU) first student handbook in 1968.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve heard about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/pegasus\/mighty-mascots\/\">history of the UCF mascot<\/a>; maybe you&#8217;ve even heard about the Citronaut. Ever seen it?<\/p>\n<p>Other choices would emerge\u2013from a vulture to a scorpion and finally a knight\u2013but it was the Citronaut that got the debate going: What would represent the university? According to UCF&#8217;s University Archives, the <em>Orlando Evening Star<\/em> (now the Orlando Sentinel) commented on the Citronaut on September 23, 1968: \u201cits fate as a mascot will be determined ultimately by faculty and charter students\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students voted. And we all know the outcome of that election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe you&#8217;ve heard about the history of the UCF mascot; maybe you&#8217;ve even heard about the Citronaut. Ever seen it? Other choices would emerge\u2013from a vulture to a scorpion and finally a knight\u2013but it was the Citronaut that got the debate going: What would represent the university? 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