{"id":115,"date":"2001-10-24T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-24T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/10\/24\/115.html"},"modified":"2001-10-24T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-24T07:59:00","slug":"were-now-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/10\/24\/were-now-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re now in orbit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No, it's not a \"Major Tom\" flashback, it's a successful-so-far (knock on wood) NASA mission to Mars, at long last.  The latest probe, Odyssey, has <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/mars\/odyssey\/status.html\">entered orbit<\/a> around Mars.  It's not over yet, though; now \"the challenging task of refining the orbit to the desired science altitude begins.\"  (\"science altitude\"???)  Best line in the article:<\/p>\n<p>\"'[T]his isn't a trip to grandma's house,' Weiler said. 'We're going to another planet, which is a long, long journey.'\"<\/p>\n<p>Grandma, what green eyestalks you have!<\/p>\n<p>Why am I not in bed yet?  Must .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. go .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. sleep.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not a &#8220;Major Tom&#8221; flashback, it&#8217;s a successful-so-far (knock on wood) NASA mission to Mars, at long last&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}