{"id":1743,"date":"2008-01-31T11:38:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T19:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/us-enters-space-age-50-years-ago-today\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T19:42:08","slug":"us-enters-space-age-50-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/us-enters-space-age-50-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Enters Space Age &#8211; 50 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in my freshman year in high school and remember the elation I felt after months of failed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_Vanguard\">Project Vanguard<\/a> flights in the wake of the Russian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sputnik\">Sputnik<\/a> launches.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/explorerlaunch.jpg' alt='launch' class='centered' \/><\/p>\n<p>Image credit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong style=\"font-size: 1.5em\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1008.html\">Entering the Space Age<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through the combined efforts of JPL and the Army Ballistic Missile Ballistic Agency, Explorer 1 launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 31, 1958. There was a nail-biting wait before tracking stations confirmed that Explorer 1 had gone successfully into orbit around Earth. With the launch of Explorer 1, the United States officially entered the space age.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in my freshman year in high school and remember the elation I felt after months of failed Project Vanguard flights in the wake of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}