{"id":13118,"date":"2012-08-10T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=13118"},"modified":"2012-08-10T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:57:30","slug":"ooops-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/ooops-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ooops."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA did an amazing thing a few days ago, landing a big giant amazing Science Robot on the Angry Red Planet, Mars.  But to get to that point, to have The Ultimate Omelette, as it were, you&#8217;ve got to break a few eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what an egg looks like when NASA breaks it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eC0y5W0ox-k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t just sit there and burn&#8230;it keeps blowing up and stuff, so you may want to watch the whole video if you missed the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p>This is\/was the <a href=\"http:\/\/morpheuslander.jsc.nasa.gov\/\">Morpheus Lander.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Morpheus is a vertical test bed vehicle demonstrating new green propellant propulsion systems and autonomous landing and hazard detection technology. Designed, developed, manufactured and operated in-house by engineers at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center, the Morpheus Project represents not only a vehicle to advance technologies, but also an opportunity to try out \u201clean development\u201d engineering practices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s a good thing. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll get it right, eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of my youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA did an amazing thing a few days ago, landing a big giant amazing Science Robot on the Angry Red Planet, Mars. But to get to that point, to have The Ultimate Omelette, as it were, you&#8217;ve got to break a few eggs. Here is what an egg looks like when NASA breaks it: It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/ooops-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ooops.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191,4052,1360],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3pA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}