{"id":12252,"date":"2009-07-17T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/07\/17\/12252.html"},"modified":"2009-07-17T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T18:08:26","slug":"apollo-11-forty-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/07\/17\/apollo-11-forty-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11: Forty years later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lane Wallace discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/correspondents.theatlantic.com\/lane_wallace\/2009\/07\/fence_wire_flying_bedsteads_and_36kb_what_got_us_to_the_moon.php\">spaceflight, sense of wonder, and technology<\/a>&mdash;noting, for example, that the Apollo 11 computer had <em>36K<\/em> of memory. The article also includes a great photo of the \"Flying Bedstead\" lunar-lander training vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>And it includes two interesting links:<\/p>\n<p>A 58-page PDF showing names of launch vehicles, dates, and comments for all major <a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/pocketstats\/sect%20B\/MLR.pdf\">NASA launches from 1958 through 1996<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A realtime online audio rebroadcast of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/externalflash\/apollo11_radio\/\">Apollo 11 mission<\/a>, using Windows Media Player (which runs on both Mac and Windows). The broadcast will run for seven days; as the Wallace article notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And on Tuesday night, at precisely 9:56:20 pm Central Daylight Time, you can hear Neil Armstrong say, once again, \"That's one small step&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lane Wallace discusses spaceflight, sense of wonder, and technology&mdash;noting, for example, that the Apollo 11 computer had 36K of memory&#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":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252","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=12252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}