{"id":1185,"date":"2012-09-08T14:18:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2012-09-08T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:18:26","slug":"american-manned-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"American Manned Spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much to be said, but it&#8217;s all been said before.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/apollo_earth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know there is still a <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflight.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">manned spaceflight _program_<\/a> at NASA, but this country lacks the ability to actually put somepony in space. I hope future historians don&#8217;t look back and say &#8220;yeah, that&#8217;s where America jumped the shark&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Even for an obnoxious hacker like me, it&#8217;s a very emotional subject. <\/p>\n<p>All I can think is &#8220;if&#8221;.  If&#8230;if&#8230;&#8221;&#8230;I wouldn&#8217;t spend my life just wishing&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube_sc  fluid widescreen\"><div class=\"inner block\"><noscript><style type=\"text\/css\">.youtube_sc iframe.yp{display:none;}<\/style><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\" class=\"yp\" title=\"YouTube video player\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8787_NbmpTM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8787_NbmpTM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" class=\"yp\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><span style=\"display:block;margin-top:15px;\">The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/get.adobe.com\/flashplayer\/\" title=\"Install from Adobe\">Get the latest Flash Player<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8787_NbmpTM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Watch on YouTube\">Watch this video on YouTube<\/a>.<\/span><\/object><\/noscript><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8787_NbmpTM?version=3&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" class=\"yp\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=3020\" target=\"_blank\">Image from NASA.<\/a> Potential threatening letter from asshat lawyer or just flat out disappearance of youtube video by FirmWarez, footage from NASA, music by A Flock of Seagulls, Wishing, 12&#8243; version.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much to be said, but it&#8217;s all been said before. Yes, I know there is still a manned spaceflight _program_ at NASA, but this country lacks the ability to actually put somepony in space. I hope future historians don&#8217;t look back and say &#8220;yeah, that&#8217;s where America jumped the shark&#8221;. Even for an obnoxious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}