{"id":14939,"date":"2010-04-14T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/discovery-and-the-future\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:25:22","slug":"discovery-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/discovery-and-the-future.php","title":{"rendered":"Discovery and the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Discovery's wing as seen from the ISS. Wallpaper versions below. Credit: NASA\/STS-131\/ISS<\/p><\/div>

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I needed some new wallpaper. I kind of liked this one, won’t be much longer and the shuttle will be nothing but a memory. I put various sizes below:<\/p>
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Now the Future:<\/strong>
President Obama’s ears were probably ringing as many former astronauts sent him an open letter<\/a> expressing serious concerns about where the country is heading with regards to the space program.  Today we learned that letter was apparently followed by a second letter sent by Neil Armstrong and Jim Lovell, calling the plan “misguided”. read this story at the NY Daily News<\/a>.  I was glad to see these letters come out because as you well know, I’ve been lamenting our direction for some time now, and I figure if the space program is gong to go down the tubes we all need to speak up; sure it may fall on deaf ears but as least we can say we tried.<\/p>

The question is: will we be talked into a back seat or is everybody all wrought up over nothing?We’ll find out because President Obama is going to outline NASA’s future tomorrow. Here’s a sneak peak<\/a> (in PDF format).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discovery's wing as seen from the ISS. Wallpaper versions below. Credit: NASA\/STS-131\/ISSI needed some new wallpaper. I kind of liked this one, won’t be much longer and the shuttle will be nothing but a memory. I put various sizes below:1280144016801920..Now … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}