{"id":548,"date":"2008-01-31T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/31\/first-us-satellite-launched-50-years-ago-today\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T21:51:00","slug":"first-us-satellite-launched-50-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/31\/first-us-satellite-launched-50-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"First US Satellite Launched 50 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recieved this press release from JPL today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Jan. 31, 1958, the JPL-designed and -built Explorer 1 soared into space. The spacecraft, a quick response to the Soviet&#8217;s Sputnik, lofted the United States into the Space Age.<\/p>\n<p>Visit JPL&#8217;s Explorer 1 site to learn about the historic event, watch archival video footage, and take an interactive peek inside the satellite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/explorer\">http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/explorer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/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 recieved this press release from JPL today: On Jan. 31, 1958, the JPL-designed and -built Explorer 1 soared into space. The spacecraft, a quick response to the Soviet&#8217;s Sputnik, lofted the United States into the Space Age. Visit JPL&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/31\/first-us-satellite-launched-50-years-ago-today\/\">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":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}