{"id":663814,"date":"2010-02-13T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11533"},"modified":"2010-02-13T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T17:00:45","slug":"twilight-of-the-shuttle-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663814","title":{"rendered":"Twilight of the Shuttle | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Shuttle <em>Endeavour<\/em> launched into orbit last week, blazing upward on its penultimate mission to the International Space Station. As it approached, astronauts onboard the now nearly-complete station snapped <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1592.html\">this dramatic photo<\/a> of the Orbiter:<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1592.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/02\/sunset_shuttle.jpg?resize=610%2C458\" alt=\"sunset_shuttle\" title=\"sunset_shuttle\" width=\"610\" height=\"458\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11534\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Stunning. And while I am a scientist and a realist, I can&#8217;t help but see the poetic and metaphoric nature of this shot. With just four remaining flights of the Space Shuttle, we soon really <em>will<\/em> be seeing it riding off into the sunset.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pI0BfMSht-7mjk2r0A9_MgbkqN4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pI0BfMSht-7mjk2r0A9_MgbkqN4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pI0BfMSht-7mjk2r0A9_MgbkqN4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pI0BfMSht-7mjk2r0A9_MgbkqN4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/2r4xT8EEgBw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/VBih3ktKoYE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shuttle Endeavour launched into orbit last week, blazing upward on its penultimate mission to the International Space Station. As it approached, astronauts onboard the now nearly-complete station snapped this dramatic photo of the Orbiter: Stunning. And while I am a scientist and a realist, I can&#8217;t help but see the poetic and metaphoric nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-663814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MGG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663814","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=663814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}