{"id":467,"date":"2010-07-12T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T10:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=467"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T10:12:14","slug":"cornerstone-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/cornerstone-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"'Cornerstone' of the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today — July 12, 2000 — the Zvezda<\/a> (“star”) service module was launched atop a Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.<\/p>\n

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\n(Zvezda module diagram. NASA image from Wikimedia Commons.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThe module docked with the nascent International Space Station (ISS) a few days later, and became “the early cornerstone” of the station.<\/p>\n

If you want to know more about how the space station was built, this NASA page<\/a> outlines the sequence of assembly for the ISS.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today — July 12, 2000 — the Zvezda (“star”) service module was launched atop a Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. (Zvezda module diagram. NASA image from Wikimedia Commons.) The module docked with the nascent International Space Station (ISS) a few days later, and became “the early \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":[8],"tags":[26,11,22],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-launch","tag-space-history","tag-space-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}