{"id":976,"date":"2008-09-30T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/09\/30\/rocket-man\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:55:09","slug":"rocket-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/09\/30\/rocket-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It went mostly unnoticed by the news, but <a href=\"http:\/\/spacex.com\/\">SpaceX<\/a> just became the first private company to put a rocket into orbit.  Their costs are significantly lower than other launch offerings, meaning that we could (finally!) be on the verge of seeing space open up to the extent that so many were predicting it would back in the &#8217;60&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object height=\"380\" width=\"480\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" id=\"bitgravity_player_5\" data=\"http:\/\/bitcast-b.bitgravity.com\/player\/bitgravity_player_5_w95.swf\"><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/bitcast-a.bitgravity.com\/player\/\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"\/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"r\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"File=http:\/\/bitcast-a.bitgravity.com\/spacex\/2008\/launches\/falcon1_flight4_liftoff_low.flv&amp;Mode=ondemand&amp;ScrubMode=normal&amp;StreamGuard=false&amp;AutoPlay=false&amp;DefaultRatio=1.333333&amp;ForceRatio=true&amp;VideoFit=fill&amp;BufferTime=1.5&amp;AutoBitrate=disabled&amp;Thumbnail=http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/multimedia\/thumbs\/falcon1_flight4_liftoff_low-lg.jpg&amp;LogoPNG=http:\/\/bitcast-a.bitgravity.com\/spacex\/spacex_logo.png\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It went mostly unnoticed by the news, but SpaceX just became the first private company to put a rocket into orbit. Their costs are significantly lower than other launch offerings, meaning that we could (finally!) be on the verge of seeing space open up to the extent that so many were predicting it would back &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/09\/30\/rocket-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rocket Man&#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":[26,54],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-engineering","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11052,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/11052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}