{"id":260,"date":"2005-08-08T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T00:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2019-01-10T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T15:45:41","slug":"space-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/space-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Space News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a fitful night&#8217;s rest last night, woke up twice early this morning and each time turned on the tele to see if Discovery made it back okay. Due to bad weather, we&#8217;ll all have to wait until tomorrow to see. My friend Phyllis asked, &#8220;I wonder if the wee hours were on purpose, or just orbit-related&#8221; and you know what? I&#8217;m wondering the same thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In other space news, I found on Chris&#8217;s site an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlewords.com\/2005\/08\/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm\">excellent analysis of the shuttle program, it&#8217;s limited success, and its multiple shortcomings<\/a> written by one Maciej Ceglowski. If you are at all interested in space, its a fascinating read.<\/p>\n<p>Phyll sent me to a Smoking Gun post about a memo William Safire wrote in 1969 which provided a speech for President Nixon to read in case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/0808051apollo1.html\">Armstrong and Aldren were stranded on the moon.<\/a> Just like the SG, I find the &#8220;widows-to-be&#8221; part morbidly amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a fitful night&#8217;s rest last night, woke up twice early this morning and each time turned on the tele to see if Discovery made it back okay. Due to bad weather, we&#8217;ll all have to wait until tomorrow to see. My friend Phyllis asked, &#8220;I wonder if the wee hours were on purpose, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[420,558,589,655],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-moon","tag-science","tag-space","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}