{"id":43,"date":"2005-07-13T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2005\/07\/13\/43\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T02:31:00","slug":"43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2005\/07\/13\/43\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very interested in space and space related things, so the coming launch of the space shuttle, scheduled for 12:50:53 PM Pacific Time has me quite excited.  After two and a half years, it&#8217;s good to see them going back again.  Of course, the space shuttle system is soon to be retired, apparently: by 2010 if all goes according to plan. It will then be replaced by a new system, the CEV and related launchers.  A good overview of the plan can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasawatch.com\/archives\/2005\/07\/griffin_wants_i.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, NASA isn&#8217;t alone anymore in flying into space; several commercial ventures are planning to get into the sub-orbital game, and ultimately orbital flights.  I was pleased, last summer, to get to volunteer with the X-Prize Foundation for the launches of SpaceShip One.  I was in media relations, meaning I got to tell reporters where to go.  That was certainly fun.<\/p>\n<p>Sites that I like to check regularly to see what&#8217;s going on are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\">Space.com<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasawatch.com\">NasaWatch<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\">SpaceDaily<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\">Sky and Telescope<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But of course on Wednesday, I intend to be glued to the TV, assuming the flight takes off as planned.<\/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>I&#8217;m very interested in space and space related things, so the coming launch of the space shuttle, scheduled for 12:50:53 PM Pacific Time has me quite excited. After two and a half years, it&#8217;s good to see them going back &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2005\/07\/13\/43\/\">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\/43"}],"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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}