{"id":506,"date":"2010-10-14T09:55:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T09:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-10-14T09:55:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T09:55:41","slug":"space-history-two-my-duty-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/space-history-two-my-duty-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Space History at Two of My Duty Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty years ago today — October 14, 1970 — test pilot John A. Manke flew the X-24A lifting body on its first supersonic flight over Edwards AFB. <\/p>\n

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\n(X-24A on the lakebed at Edwards AFB. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThe X-24A<\/a> was one of several lifting bodies used to study Space Shuttle flight characteristics.<\/p>\n

And 45 years ago today, in 1965, the second Orbiting Geophysical Observatory — OGO-2<\/a> — was launched by a Thor rocket from Vandenberg AFB. It was the first OGO launch from Vandy, and was placed in a polar orbit.<\/p>\n

I feel privileged, and somewhat awed, to have served (and done some neat things) at both of those bases.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forty years ago today — October 14, 1970 — test pilot John A. Manke flew the X-24A lifting body on its first supersonic flight over Edwards AFB. (X-24A on the lakebed at Edwards AFB. NASA image.) The X-24A was one of several lifting bodies used to study Space Shuttle flight \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":[16,26,11,12,17],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","tag-edwards","tag-launch","tag-space-history","tag-space-shuttle","tag-vandenberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}