{"id":14674,"date":"2012-04-18T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14674"},"modified":"2012-04-18T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:53:21","slug":"reason-tv-the-space-shuttle-era-is-over-thank-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/reason-tv-the-space-shuttle-era-is-over-thank-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv: The Space Shuttle Era is Over (Thank God!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XXkW8W0-Noc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So the space shuttle <em>Discovery<\/em> has flown its last mission; it&#8217;s been towed over the nation&#8217;s capital like a bruised Chevy after a demolition derby before being deposited at the Udvar-Hazy air and space museum in northern Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Other space junkers &mdash; <em>Atlantis<\/em> and <em>Endeavour<\/em> &mdash; are being retired like Brett Favre in a pair of Crocs, too, bringing to end an underwhelming three decades of fruitless and tragic exploration of low-earth orbiting patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it: Once we beat the Russians to the moon, the national rocket grew limper than Liberace at a speculum convention. NASA has been dining out on a single 1969 hit longer than Zager and Evans.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that amateur hour is now over and the private space race has begun. Where two Cold War superpowers failed, let a thousand business plans bloom!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the space shuttle Discovery has flown its last mission; it&#8217;s been towed over the nation&#8217;s capital like a bruised Chevy after a demolition derby before being deposited at the Udvar-Hazy air and space museum in northern Virginia. Other space junkers &mdash; Atlantis and Endeavour &mdash; are being retired like Brett Favre in a pair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,44],"tags":[722,69,394,716,708],"class_list":["post-14674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-space-science","tag-lowearthorbit","tag-nasa","tag-privatization","tag-spacecraft","tag-spacex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3OG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14676,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions\/14676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}