{"id":15119,"date":"2011-01-15T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=15119"},"modified":"2011-01-15T04:10:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T10:10:49","slug":"saturday-afternoon-theater-space-the-open-road-still-softly-calls-3-videos-on-exploration-and-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/saturday-afternoon-theater-space-the-open-road-still-softly-calls-3-videos-on-exploration-and-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Afternoon Theater: &#8220;The Open Road Still Softly Calls&#8221; 3 Videos on Space Exploration &#038; Wonder."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gathered here are three videos on the wonders of space exploration. The two below are short films. The video below the jump is the 30 years of the Space Shuttle commemorative film documenting shuttle launches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reid Gower&#8217;s: NASA &#8211; The Frontier Is Everywhere <\/strong><br \/>\nA man, frustrated with NASA&#8217;s poor publicity skills, creates kick-ass <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0\" class=\"external external_icon\">video of his own<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"590\" height=\"356\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oY59wZdCDo0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oY59wZdCDo0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"590\" height=\"356\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>With crazy credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2822787\" class=\"external external_icon\">Michael Marantz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAVEN Mission to Investigate How Sun Steals Martian Atmosphere<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=3a4eabf861&#038;photo_id=5054516441\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=3a4eabf861&#038;photo_id=5054516441\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nNASA release October 5, 2010<\/p>\n<p>The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), set to launch in 2013, will explore the planet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind. Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN&#8217;s Principal Investigator discusses the mission.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: NASA\/Goddard\/Chris Smith<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Freefall below the cut for the main event:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Best of the Best&#8221; Launches &#8220;Powered&#8221; by Music <\/strong><br \/>\nA commentary on the video lay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vFwqZ4qAUkE\" class=\"external external_icon\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"600\" height=\"362\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/48hjjKUS7G8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/48hjjKUS7G8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gathered here are three videos on the wonders of space exploration. The two below are short films. The video below the jump is the 30 years of the Space Shuttle commemorative film documenting shuttle launches. Reid Gower&#8217;s: NASA &#8211; The Frontier Is Everywhere A man, frustrated with NASA&#8217;s poor publicity skills, creates kick-ass video of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,9,81],"tags":[2298,1170,3014,1554,3766,1585,3235,1442,3629,1943],"class_list":["post-15119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-science","category-space","tag-fan-made","tag-fan-film","tag-get-your-ass-to-mars","tag-get-your-ass-to-the-moon","tag-reid-gower","tag-saturday-afternoon-theater","tag-space-exploration-now","tag-space-shuttle","tag-the-future-soon","tag-we-dont-go-to-the-moon-anymore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119","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=15119"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15128,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions\/15128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}