{"id":605,"date":"2011-05-19T17:27:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=605"},"modified":"2011-05-19T17:27:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:27:25","slug":"remembering-endeavour-plus-first-martian-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/remembering-endeavour-plus-first-martian-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering ENDEAVOUR … plus, the First Martian Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Space Shuttle Endeavour<\/em> is in orbit on its final flight, it seems fitting that we remember that 15 years ago today — May 19, 1996 — Endeavour<\/em> launched from the Kennedy Space Center on another mission. <\/p>\n

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\n(The Inflatable Antenna Experiment, after deployment. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nMission STS-77<\/a> carried U.S. astronauts John H. Casper, Curtis L. Brown, Daniel W. Bursch, Mario Runco, Jr., and Andrew S. W. Thomas, and Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau. The astronauts conducted a variety of experiments, including deploying the free-flying Inflatable Antenna Experiment, which at its full size was as big as a tennis court.<\/p>\n

Here’s wishing the best to the current crew of Endeavour<\/em> as they carry out their mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

Also in today’s space history, 40 years ago the Mars-2<\/a> spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On its approach to Mars in November 1971, it released a lander that “entered the Martian atmosphere at roughly 6.0 km\/s at a steeper angle than planned” and crashed: the first human-built article to reach the surface of Mars.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the Space Shuttle Endeavour is in orbit on its final flight, it seems fitting that we remember that 15 years ago today — May 19, 1996 — Endeavour launched from the Kennedy Space Center on another mission. (The Inflatable Antenna Experiment, after deployment. NASA image.) Mission STS-77 carried U.S. \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":[26,85,11,12,22],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-launch","tag-mars","tag-space-history","tag-space-shuttle","tag-space-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}