{"id":10367,"date":"2010-03-28T09:15:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2010-03-28T06:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T12:41:56","slug":"astronaut-jim-lovell-agrees-space-should-be-our-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/astronaut-jim-lovell-agrees-space-should-be-our-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Jim Lovell Agrees, Space Should Be Our Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning out tabs that have been open for weeks. As any faithful reader may have guessed, we have a damn lot of them. The best way to remember them properly is to post them. For example, at least some of the old school astronauts are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=9908\"> as disappointed as we were<\/a> regarding the delays in returning to the moon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell, the heroic commander of Apollo 13.<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8565243.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">Personally I think it will have catastrophic consequences in our ability to explore space and the spin-offs we get from space technology<\/a>,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;They haven&#8217;t thought through the consequences.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you need examples of how space exploration has benefited us here on Earth, have a look at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sti.nasa.gov\/tto\/\" class=\"external external_icon\"> NASA&#8217;s annual publication <em>Spinoff<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sti.nasa.gov\/tto\/Spinoff2009\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">PDF <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sti.nasa.gov\/spinoff\/database\" class=\"external external_icon\">searchable database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sti.nasa.gov\/tto\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/spinoff09_index.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spinoff09_index\" width=\"260\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10369\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8565243.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">bbc<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning out tabs that have been open for weeks. As any faithful reader may have guessed, we have a damn lot of them. The best way to remember them properly is to post them. For example, at least some of the old school astronauts are as disappointed as we were regarding the delays in returning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[518,2082,2081,208,355,150,2084,33,2083,1943],"class_list":["post-10367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-usa","tag-astronauts","tag-constellation","tag-jim-lovell","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-obama","tag-pdf","tag-politics","tag-spinoff","tag-we-dont-go-to-the-moon-anymore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10371,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions\/10371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}