{"id":12314,"date":"2010-02-08T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=12314"},"modified":"2010-02-08T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:22:50","slug":"historic-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12314","title":{"rendered":"Historic rocket science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hNFFWIYKS7c&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hNFFWIYKS7c&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em>NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STS-1\" target=\"_blank\">STS-1,<\/a> April 12, 1981<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1981, I woke up in the middle of the night to watch the launch of the first space shuttle. <\/p>\n<p>And then they scrubbed the mission. <\/p>\n<p>Had to wake up a <em>second<\/em> night to see the actual launch (above). I recorded the whole thing on a cassette tape (my first VCR was still a year away). <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Reynolds\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Reynolds<\/a> of ABC did the blow by blow. It was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Columbia\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia.<\/a> Got the mission patch when visiting NASA in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/ames\/home\/2008\/hangar_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain View.<\/a> Star Wars-like lettering for the name (below).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NASA1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We all thought the shuttle launch would look like what they did in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z2GTKBx4H5Y\" target=\"_blank\">Moonraker<\/a> (1979). It was a bit different.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I just finished watching the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Endeavour\" target=\"_blank\">Endeavour<\/a> (below). This is the last year of shuttles for NASA. More stuff on NASA TV <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NASA2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NASA3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NASA4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NASA5.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/launch\/launch_blog.html\"target=\"_blank\">STS-130,<\/a> February 8, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thx to Shandi Pierzina for telling me about tonite&#8217;s launch<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Historic rocket science\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12314\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA STS-1, April 12, 1981 In 1981, I woke up in the middle of the night to watch the launch of the first space shuttle. And then they scrubbed the mission. Had to wake up a second night to see the actual launch (above). I recorded the whole thing on a cassette tape (my first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,49,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-education","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12314"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12328,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314\/revisions\/12328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}