{"id":413,"date":"2010-03-01T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=413"},"modified":"2010-03-01T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T11:02:12","slug":"atlantis-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/atlantis-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty years ago, in 1990, the Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/em> was in orbit on mission STS-36. It had launched on the Department of Defense mission on February 28, during a classified launch window.<\/p>\n

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\n(Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, taken from<\/em> Atlantis on STS-36. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nAstronauts John O. Creighton, John H. Casper, David C. Hilmers, Richard M. Mullane, and Pierre J. Thuot deployed a classified payload shortly after reaching orbit, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on March 4th. <\/p>\n

(Personal note: We were still at Edwards AFB at the time, but I don’t remember if I saw that landing. I was not on the recovery team for it.)<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty years ago, in 1990, the Space Shuttle Atlantis was in orbit on mission STS-36. It had launched on the Department of Defense mission on February 28, during a classified launch window. (Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, taken from Atlantis on STS-36. NASA image.) Astronauts John O. Creighton, John H. Casper, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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":[5],"tags":[16,11,12],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","tag-edwards","tag-space-history","tag-space-shuttle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}