{"id":596,"date":"2009-11-08T05:23:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:23:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:23:53","slug":"dumpster-diving-for-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/dumpster-diving-for-rockets.php","title":{"rendered":"Dumpster Diving for Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excalibur Almaz has done something cool by using old Russian manned modules and dusting them off to do more missions with them.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, there are a few dozen Titan 2 rockets waiting to be scrapped or &#8220;turned into monuments&#8221; in Tucson Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How much payload could these send to the moon? Could this be a boon to Google Lunar X-Prize contestants? These can put 277 KG on an escape trajectory. That could get a real lightweight payload to the surface of the moon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titan_(rocket_family)\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titan_(rocket_family)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LGM-25C_Titan_II\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LGM-25C_Titan_II<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What other obsolete rockets are moldering about in warehouses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excalibur Almaz has done something cool by using old Russian manned modules and dusting them off to do more missions with them. According to Wikipedia, there are a few dozen Titan 2 rockets waiting to be scrapped or &#8220;turned into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/dumpster-diving-for-rockets.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}