{"id":1744,"date":"2008-02-01T12:38:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T20:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/in-memory-of-the-sts-107-crew-and-columbia\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T20:46:39","slug":"in-memory-of-the-sts-107-crew-and-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/in-memory-of-the-sts-107-crew-and-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of the STS-107 Crew and Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/lightness.jpg' title='lightness'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/lightness.jpg' alt='lightness'  width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>In 1981 I saw a spaceship land on Earth &#8211; twice. I went to Rogers Dry Lake by Edwards AFB in the desert and witnessed the arrival of the Columbia. I went April 14th for the first landing and again on the 4th of July for the second mission.<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, I went to Titusville, Florida and watched as Columbia ascended atop a fiery plume and a trail of white smoke. The ground shook with the rumble and crack of the boosters.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago today, I awoke with a start &#8211; something &#8211; I don&#8217;t know what &#8211;  made me turn on the little LCD TV I keep in the nightstand. I was horrified to see images of the destruction of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>I have a fond place in my heart for the Astronauts of STS-107 and the Columbia &#8211; and I will never forget February 1, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1009.html\">NASA Image of the Day<\/a>, taken from aboard STS-107. Click on it for 1024&#215;768 in the viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1981 I saw a spaceship land on Earth &#8211; twice. I went to Rogers Dry Lake by Edwards AFB in the desert and witnessed the&#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-1744","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\/1744","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=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}