{"id":3087,"date":"2012-05-31T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2012-05-31T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:57:05","slug":"the-dragon-has-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3087","title":{"rendered":"The Dragon has come home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dragon spacecraft of SpaceX corporation successfully splashed down after a successful overall mission of hauling cargo to and from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an incredible success for a commercial venture.<\/p>\n<p>I also found the appearance of the SpaceX mission control facility revealing. Ordinary office desks, ordinary office chairs, ordinary flat screen monitors. Nothing special, no horrendously expensive custom hardware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/updates\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3088\" title=\"spacex\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spacex.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spacex.png 500w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spacex-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This reinforces my impression that the SpaceX venture actually brought the 21st century to NASA and the ISS. An impression that was created by the ISS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/astro_andre\/7275183844\/in\/set-72157629901589668\">crew&#8217;s reaction<\/a> to the Dragon capsule&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3055\">new car smell<\/a>&#8221; and its space-age interior complete with smooth surfaces, blue LEDs and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to SpaceX. Well done. Here is to the future.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3087' 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>The Dragon spacecraft of SpaceX corporation successfully splashed down after a successful overall mission of hauling cargo to and from the International Space Station. It&#8217;s an incredible success for a commercial venture. I also found the appearance of the SpaceX mission control facility revealing. Ordinary office desks, ordinary office chairs, ordinary flat screen monitors. Nothing <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3087' 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-3087","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\/3087","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=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}