{"id":2288,"date":"2010-04-24T15:29:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T19:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2010-05-15T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:24:37","slug":"a-shuttle-a-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"A shuttle. A Space."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">L<\/span>ast week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2289\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2289\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/colum_bia_landing-150x95.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The very first successful landing of a Space Shuttle\" width=\"150\" height=\"95\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/colum_bia_landing-150x95.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/colum_bia_landing-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/colum_bia_landing.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I found out that the Space Shuttles are going to be retired next year. Currently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-04-22\/nasa-has-yet-to-decide-on-final-destinations-for-space-shuttles.html\">NASA is looking for the shuttles&#8217; final home<\/a>: several institutions consider displaying America&#8217;s Expensive and Great Leap Of Faith Into Space. Sarcasm aside, seeing the first Space Shuttle take off and land, and that all live on TV: as a young kid,  that was fairly amazing, yes. However, I&#8217;ve never been a fan of manned space exploration (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1141\">previously on xsamplex<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>Slightly more exciting: it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/hubble_20\/\">20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, and NASA celebrated that with <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2010\/13\/image\/a\/\">this pretty picture<\/a> of &#8216;Mystic Mountain&#8217;. What can I say about the Telescope? I remember that the initial launch and deployment were not that successful and that thanks to the Space Shuttle, the &#8216;Scope wouldn&#8217;t have been making as pretty as pictures as it does now.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Telescope, however, will last for a couple of more years and is to be replaced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/webb_telescope\/\">&#8216;Webb Telescope&#8217; in 2014<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><strong>May 15, 2010<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thereporters\/jonathanamos\/2010\/05\/the-last-planned-flight-of-atl.shtml\">Atlantis&#8217; Last Voyage<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I found out that the Space Shuttles are going to be retired next year. Currently, NASA is looking for the shuttles&#8217; final home: several institutions consider displaying America&#8217;s Expensive and Great Leap Of Faith Into Space. Sarcasm aside, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2288\">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":[128,421,123,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288"}],"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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}