{"id":1141,"date":"2006-07-01T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2006-07-01T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T15:49:46","slug":"a-spaceshuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"A SpaceShuttle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>oday, <a id=\"p1140\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1140\" title=\"The Discovery on the launchplatform\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/spac_e_sh_utt_le.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The Discovery on the launchplatform\" \/><\/a>the space shuttle <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/space\/07\/01\/shuttle.launch\/index.html\">Discovery<\/a> is about to be launched, the first space shuttle launch after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Columbia\">Columbia&#8217;s doomed re-entry in 2003<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>You may have heard about the discussion about flying or not flying: Early in June, NASA&#8217;s management decided to launch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,,1800707,00.html\">despite opposition from NASA engineers<\/a>. There&#8217;s even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/52687\">discussion over at Metafilter<\/a>, where to my surprise the general consensus is that &#8216;exploration means taking risks&#8217;. Tell that your insurance company.\n<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I cannot believe that the space shuttle, this <em>relic<\/em> of the Eighties, is still flying or actually, deemed fit for &#8216;space travel&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=Space+shuttle&#038;searchsubmit=Go\">earlier on xsamplex<\/a>). Luckily, these aren&#8217;t my tax dollars being burnt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the space shuttle Discovery is about to be launched, the first space shuttle launch after the Columbia&#8217;s doomed re-entry in 2003. You may have heard about the discussion about flying or not flying: Early in June, NASA&#8217;s management decided &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}