{"id":242,"date":"2007-06-05T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/06\/05\/242\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T13:24:00","slug":"242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/06\/05\/242\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armadillo Aerospace (founded and run by the guy who made the Doom games) did a demo launch of his lunar lander; if he does what he did with this test at the XPrize Cup in New Mexico in October, he\u2019ll win a million bucks. The video is here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.armadilloaerospace.com\/2007_06_03\/LLC1demo.mpg\">Armadillo Lunar Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought it was pretty cool; the test vehicle is about as tall as a person. More info here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/06\/04\/213350.aspx\">Cosmic Log<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the owner and CEO of Amazon.com has his own space program, too:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/public.blueorigin.com\/index.html\">Blue Origin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s video of his vertical take off and landing rocket there, too. Just scroll down and you\u2019ll see where to click.<\/p>\n<p>And, Bigelow Aerospace (owned by the CEO of Budget Suites of America) has a test space station in orbit and plans to launch another one later this month. For more info (pictures and video), go here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigelowaerospace.com\/\">Bigelow Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things remain very busy in space. NASA is scheduled to launch the next Shuttle to the International Space Station on Friday, June 8.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armadillo Aerospace (founded and run by the guy who made the Doom games) did a demo launch of his lunar lander; if he does what he did with this test at the XPrize Cup in New Mexico in October, he\u2019ll &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/06\/05\/242\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}