{"id":382,"date":"2004-05-13T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/05\/13\/burbank-california-42\/"},"modified":"2004-05-13T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T21:10:00","slug":"burbank-california-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/05\/13\/burbank-california-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Burbank, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burt Rutan&#8217;s Scaled Composites company today launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/New_Index\/flight_data\/flt_data.htm\">test flight<\/a> of their X-Prize craft to 211,000 feet, just shy of the fifty mile height required by NASA to be a certified astronaut.  They are already the first small company to break the sound barrier, and with another 120,000 feet they will have won the X-Prize, becoming the first non-government group to enter space.<\/p>\n<p>Comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/05\/13\/1814255&amp;mode=nested&amp;tid=134&amp;tid=160\">Slashdot<\/a> about this event ranged from insightful to stupid, as illustrated by this posting and response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\t\t&gt;<i>They could sell this Technology to the NKoreans<br \/>\n\t\t&gt;and then they would have a working ICBM.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\t\tNot just an ICBM but a <b>manned<\/b> ICBM. You can imagine the intense competition for that job.\n\t\t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burt Rutan&#8217;s Scaled Composites company today launched a test flight of their X-Prize craft to 211,000 feet, just shy of the fifty mile height required by NASA to be a certified astronaut. They are already the first small company to break the sound barrier, and with another 120,000 feet they will have won the X-Prize, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/05\/13\/burbank-california-42\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burbank, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}