{"id":647170,"date":"2010-01-28T16:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:06:51","slug":"challenger-24-years-ago-today-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/647170","title":{"rendered":"Challenger, 24 years ago today | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded less than two minutes after takeoff. Yesterday too was the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2007\/01\/28\/apollo-1-redux-the-inevitablility-of-disaster\/\">I wrote about these events three years ago<\/a>, and my feelings have not changed.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read more about this, with links to others&#8217; thoughts, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2010\/01\/28\/remembering-challenger\/\">on Universe Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SzGBGqp-xOI5QgDEcT7VfCn7PuI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SzGBGqp-xOI5QgDEcT7VfCn7PuI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SzGBGqp-xOI5QgDEcT7VfCn7PuI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SzGBGqp-xOI5QgDEcT7VfCn7PuI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/d0CqJrDPdHU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/JvAz4TWVB0Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded less than two minutes after takeoff. Yesterday too was the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. I wrote about these events three years ago, and my feelings have not changed. You can also read more about this, with links to others&#8217; thoughts, on Universe Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ime","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}