{"id":2723,"date":"2005-04-13T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2723\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T02:10:57","slug":"2723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2723","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technewsworld.com\/story\/spce\/41666.html\">TechNewsWorld<\/a> has an interesting story on the mission that NASA does not want to do &#8211; that is the possible ditching of a space shuttle from orbit and picking up it&#8217;s passengers from the International Space Station. And also looks at how such a mission would kill off the ability of the USA to send people into space for some time &#8211; probably well over a decade. <\/p>\n<p>I actually saw a shuttle in the new National Air and Space Museum near Washington DC last year. The photo of this is just below. The museum is really amazing, and cost about $350m, most of this from private funds. The shuttle was being refurbished for permament display so there was a lot of work being done on it. Back in 2002 when I worked on Ironman in Hawaii one of the peopel I was working with had actually designed and installed a wireless closed circuit TV system for the astronaughts. Cool Stuff&#8230; I can assure you that the flight from Sydney to Hawaii was very very interesting talking to him. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/04\/shuttle-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Music:<\/h2>\n<p>Random play had the song &#8216;This land is mine&#8217; from Dido. I just love what this song is saying. Listen to the words and you will know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechNewsWorld has an interesting story on the mission that NASA does not want to do &#8211; that is the possible ditching of a space shuttle from orbit and picking up it&#8217;s passengers from the International Space Station. And also looks &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2723\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/04\/shuttle.jpg?fit=388%2C258","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-2723","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}