{"id":13962,"date":"2026-04-02T22:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13962"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:15:36","slug":"space-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13962","title":{"rendered":"Space cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And we heard the magic phrase earlier tonight: trans-lunar injection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13963\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220702.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220702-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220702-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It happened. Whatever the outcome (and I hope it&#8217;ll be a good outcome) four humans are now committed to travel to the Moon, for the very first time in since December, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>And the have a cat to watch over them. Not a real cat, but still: a cat at the Mission Control Center.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13964\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220824.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220824.jpg 360w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220824-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220824-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220824-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220824-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220824-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220824-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260402_220824-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What can possibly go wrong when you have a cat supervising the flight? Nothing, I sincerely hope.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13962' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we heard the magic phrase earlier tonight: trans-lunar injection. It happened. Whatever the outcome (and I hope it&#8217;ll be a good outcome) four humans are now committed to travel to the Moon, for the very first time in since December, 1972. And the have a cat to watch over them. Not a real cat, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13962' 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":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-space","category-7-id","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\/13962","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=13962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13965,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions\/13965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}