{"id":13959,"date":"2026-04-01T22:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13959"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:32:42","slug":"another-first-in-53-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13959","title":{"rendered":"Another first in 53 years…"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in 53 years, NASA’s Deep Space Network is communicating not with a robotic spacecraft but with a human spaceflight in deep space.<\/p>\n

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Presently just over 32,000 km from the center of the Earth, in, as I understand it, a highly elliptical orbit, not quite yet heading to the Moon: that will involve yet another phrase we have not heard uttered “live” in 53 years: trans-lunar injection.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time in 53 years, NASA’s Deep Space Network is communicating not with a robotic spacecraft but with a human spaceflight in deep space. Presently just over 32,000 km from the center of the Earth, in, as I understand it, a highly elliptical orbit, not quite yet heading to the Moon: that will […]<\/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-13959","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\/13959","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=13959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13961,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13959\/revisions\/13961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}