{"id":881,"date":"2009-09-27T02:49:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T06:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2009-09-27T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T12:53:08","slug":"fly-me-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/881\/fly-me-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly Me to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the future of space travel may be in the private sector (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/space.xprize.org\/lunar-lander-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">X Prize Foundation&#8217;s website<\/a>), governments are still the main players in this day and age. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s encouraging to see <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/WireStory?id=8669917&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">this ABC News report<\/a> that the U.S. is considering delaying the retirement of the Space Shuttle.<\/p>\n<p>Not that the shuttle is anything exciting. Space travel started losing its appeal when the focus became the International Space Station (a sort of floating UN with freeze-dried food) instead of missions of discovery. But with space becoming an issue tied in just as closely with national security as with science &amp; technology, leaving the US dependent on an increasingly surly Russia for our trips to outer space was never a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the future of space travel may be in the private sector (see the X Prize Foundation&#8217;s website), governments are still the main players in this day and age. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s encouraging to see this ABC News report that the U.S. is considering delaying the retirement of the Space Shuttle. Not that the shuttle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141,193,192],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-russia","tag-space-shuttle","tag-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}