{"id":236,"date":"2005-08-04T00:12:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T05:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/journal\/?p=236"},"modified":"2007-10-10T00:13:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T05:13:38","slug":"space-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/2005\/08\/space-the-final-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Space, The Final Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/124264main_fd7_s114e5979_high.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2005\/hello.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"JAXA Astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves at his spacewalking crewmate, Astronaut Steve Robinson\" title=\"JAXA Astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves at his spacewalking crewmate, Astronaut Steve Robinson\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STS-114\">STS-114<\/a> Discovery Space Shuttle launch live on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/index.html\">NASA TV<\/a> on July 27th. NASA TV was also showing a live feed into the Control Rooms when the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_Pathfinder\">Mars Pathfinder<\/a> landed on <a href=\"http:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/profile.cfm?Object=Mars&amp;Display=Overview\">Mars<\/a> and recently when Deep Impact <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_Impact_%28space_mission%29\">smashed<\/a> into Comet Tempel 1. watching these missions and the first pictures and images that are beamed back from millions of miles away is such an exhilirating experience. I hope space travel becomes affordable for normal passengers within my lifetime. i would absoluetly go up in space if i had the chance to. the revolution has already started with the successful completion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ANSARI_X_PRIZE\">Ansari X Prize<\/a> and the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/en\/\">Virgin Galactic<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trump.com\/\">Trump<\/a> should throw in his support and announce a Trump Tower on the <a href=\"http:\/\/moon.google.com\/\">Moon<\/a><em>!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i watched the STS-114 Discovery Space Shuttle launch live on NASA TV on July 27th. NASA TV was also showing a live feed into the Control Rooms when the Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars and recently when Deep Impact smashed into Comet Tempel 1. watching these missions and the first pictures and images that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XQq-3O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}