{"id":1686,"date":"2011-07-13T14:36:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2011-07-13T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:36:17","slug":"an_end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"An End"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img mt-image-left zemanta-action-dragged\" style=\"margin: 0em; display: block; float: left; width: 191px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daylife.com\/image\/0demdzd0Bm0X6?utm_source=zemanta&amp;utm_medium=p&amp;utm_content=0demdzd0Bm0X6&amp;utm_campaign=z1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.daylife.com\/imageserve\/0demdzd0Bm0X6\/150x100.jpg\" alt=\"TITUSVILLE, FL - JULY 08:  People watch as Spa...\" height=\"121\" width=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daylife.com\/source\/Getty_Images\">Getty Images<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daylife.com\/\">@daylife<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t thought all that much about the ending of the Space Shuttle program &#8211; I mean I really have, but I don&#8217;t dwell on the subject.&nbsp; I&#8217;m having an emotional, visceral reaction.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve always been so enamored with the future, technology, and space exploration.&nbsp; The first launch in 1981 was an exciting event.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder why the United States could not have or develop a replacement launch system to take the Shuttles place.&nbsp; Now, we are at the mercy of the Russians to get any of our people into space.&nbsp; Perhaps this is just a lull, but the decimation of the space industry that is resulting is not good for the future of our space program.<\/p>\n<p>I also understand that the monies allocated to NASA could be better spent creating new systems for deep space exploration &#8211; by be in a glorified bus business.&nbsp; I understand that.&nbsp; Yet, at this point in time I don&#8217;t believe that our situation is a result of a well planned out program.&nbsp; I simply fear that with all of other national problems, the U.S. space exploration program may well be hampered, permanently.<\/p>\n<p>We shall see, but for now there is no longer a means to get our guys into space.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=9bc6e1de-c835-4ab2-94aa-0291beb827a3\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Getty Images via @daylife I haven&#8217;t thought all that much about the ending of the Space Shuttle program &#8211; I mean I really have, but I don&#8217;t dwell on the subject.&nbsp; I&#8217;m having an emotional, visceral reaction.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politicsculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}