{"id":58,"date":"2005-04-05T20:57:05","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T00:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=58"},"modified":"2005-04-05T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T00:57:12","slug":"voyager-missions-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Voyager missions shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reedmaniac.com\/\">ReedManiac<\/a>, I found out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/business\/technology\/11316491.htm\">NASA is planning to put an end to the Voyager missions<\/a> because of shifting priorities. You know, because of Bush&#8217;s plan to put a moon on the Mars, I mean, to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov\/HAS\/cirr\/em\/11\/2.cfm\">Mars via the Moon project<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>As you probably know, both Voyager I and II are currently speeding away <a href=\"http:\/\/voyager.jpl.nasa.gov\/images\/VgrHeliosphere.jpg\">from the Solar system<\/a>, drifting in the sun&#8217;s heliosphere. Their scientific achievements are well known, however, their current mission status is not: They&#8217;re both still working and they still send (valuable) data back to  mission control at JPL. Says a lead investigator for the project:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;There are no other plans to reach the edge of the solar system. Now we&#8217;re getting all this new information, and here comes NASA saying, `We want to pull the plug&#8217;.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Hubble Telescope was axed for budgetary reasons too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via ReedManiac, I found out that the NASA is planning to put an end to the Voyager missions because of shifting priorities. You know, because of Bush&#8217;s plan to put a moon on the Mars, I mean, to go to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=58\">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\/58"}],"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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}