{"id":2960,"date":"2009-08-29T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/29\/liftoff\/"},"modified":"2009-08-29T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T14:54:06","slug":"liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/29\/liftoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening, we paused the DVD player to watch the liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery. After a couple of aborted countdowns earlier in the week, Discovery, once again, roared into space from the Florida Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Damsel snapped this image with her camera just at the moment of liftoff. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/liftoff.jpg' title='liftoff.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/liftoff.thumbnail.jpg' alt='liftoff.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/main\/index.html\">NASA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With seven astronauts and a host of experiments and equipment on board, space shuttle Discovery completed a flawless ascent into orbit Friday night to begin a two-day chase of the International Space Station. With Commander Rick &#8220;C.J. &#8221; Sturckow at the controls, the shuttle lifted off on-time at 11:59 p.m. EDT from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will rendezvous and dock with the station Sunday and the crew will begin transferring equipment to the outpost during the 13-day mission.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening, we paused the DVD player to watch the liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery. After a couple of aborted countdowns earlier in the week, Discovery,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2960","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\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}