{"id":665,"date":"2008-05-02T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/05\/02\/send-yourself-to-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:11:00","slug":"send-yourself-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/05\/02\/send-yourself-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Send Yourself to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least you can send your name there.  Just go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lro.jhuapl.edu\/NameToMoon\/index.php\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Page<\/a> and give NASA your name.  Not only will your name get to make a long trip, you&#8217;ll get a nice certificate suitable for framing.  It&#8217;s free!  And you have until June 27, 2008 to sign on.  Your name is then scheduled to be launched October 31, 2008 aboard an Atlas V rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is designed to go into a polar orbit of the moon.  It&#8217;s mission is set to last a minimum of one Earth year. An optional extended phase of the mission (up to five years) could provide a communications relay for other future ground lunar missions, such as a moon lander or rover.<\/p>\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>Or at least you can send your name there. Just go to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Page and give NASA your name. Not only will your name get to make a long trip, you&#8217;ll get a nice certificate suitable &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/05\/02\/send-yourself-to-the-moon\/\">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\/665"}],"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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}