{"id":282,"date":"2004-07-16T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=282"},"modified":"2004-07-16T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T17:39:09","slug":"rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five years ago today the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_11\">Apollo 11<\/a> mission launched from Cape Canaveral.  The Saturn V rocket was the largest launch vehicle ever made, and at the time of the first moon landing the order to terminate the Apollo program was already a year old.<\/p>\n<p>Today there are exactly two human beings in space, dependent on a 40-year-old Russian spacecraft for launch and landing.<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five years ago today the Apollo 11 mission launched from Cape Canaveral. The Saturn V rocket was the largest launch vehicle ever made, and at the time of the first moon landing the order to terminate the Apollo program was already a year old. Today there are exactly two human beings in space, dependent on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rocket Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}