{"id":1174,"date":"2009-11-03T15:03:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2009-11-03T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T15:03:59","slug":"fly-me-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Fly me to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Romanians are planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcaspace.ro\/\">fly a balloon<\/a> to the Moon. OK, to be more precise, what they&#8217;re planning is the use of a stratospheric balloon as a launch platform for their attempt to win Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlelunarxprize.org\/\">Lunar X Prize<\/a>. It&#8217;s not as crazy as it sounds&#8230; the disadvantages of launching from an unstable platform like a balloon may be more than offset by the advantages of launching from an altitude that is above most of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1174' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Romanians are planning to fly a balloon to the Moon. OK, to be more precise, what they&#8217;re planning is the use of a stratospheric balloon as a launch platform for their attempt to win Google&#8217;s Lunar X Prize. It&#8217;s not as crazy as it sounds&#8230; the disadvantages of launching from an unstable platform like <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1174' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}