{"id":73,"date":"2005-08-09T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=73"},"modified":"2005-08-09T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T13:46:03","slug":"space-shuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/09\/space-shuttle\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Shuttle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, since the shuttle landed safely a few minutes ago, I thought I’d write my thoughts about the whole set of shenanigans.<\/p>\n

The thing is clearly unsafe… and badly designed. All I’m surprised about is that more shuttle disasters haven’t happened previously.<\/p>\n

However, my opinions are based on little more than what I’ve heard or read from various mainstream sources.<\/p>\n

Luckily for you, you don’t have to read my half thought through ramblings. I present to you Maciej Ceglowski. He’s somebody who has clearly done his homework, and prepared a very good, no, excellent analysis of the shuttle program.<\/a> Ultimately, he recommends the scrapping of the NASA<\/a> manned shuttle program and starting from scratch with a real mission definition, newer, better technology, and real protection for the crews. The current NASA unmanned program has been making significant and amazing scientific discoveries for years while the shuttle and International Space Station<\/a> money-pits continue to falter.<\/p>\n

At least one thing can be said about the Space Shuttle<\/a> crew though: they take some outstanding photographs<\/a>, including this brilliant self-portrait.<\/p>\n

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Well, since the shuttle landed safely a few minutes ago, I thought I’d write my thoughts about the whole set of shenanigans. The thing is clearly unsafe… and badly designed. All I’m surprised about is that more shuttle disasters haven’t happened previously. However, my opinions are based on little more than what I’ve heard or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,25],"tags":[82,312,1467,1535,1670,1800,1852,2009,2103,2363,2682,2815,2817,2889,2949,3130],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-general","category-linkage","category-photographs","tag-82","tag-august","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-international-space-station","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-linkage-2","tag-maciej-ceglowski","tag-missions","tag-nasa","tag-photos","tag-self-portrait","tag-space","tag-space-shuttle","tag-stunning","tag-technology","tag-united-states","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-1b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}