{"id":1775,"date":"2008-03-13T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/13\/happy-birthday-vanguard-i-spac\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T21:24:10","slug":"happy-birthday-vanguard-i-spac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/happy-birthday-vanguard-i-spac\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Vanguard I Space Probe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-f5a902c88e53b636d01636446f472705-vanI_launch_march_1958.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-f5a902c88e53b636d01636446f472705-vanI_launch_march_1958.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news124646257.html\">Vanguard I celebrates 50 years in space<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>The Vanguard I satellite celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Its launch on March 17, 1958 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, culminated the efforts of America&#8217;s first official space satellite program begun in September 1955. The first solar-powered satellite, Vanguard I has the distinction of being the oldest artificial satellite orbiting the earth. Its predecessors, Sputniks I and II and Explorer I, have since fallen out of orbit.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news124646257.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanguard I celebrates 50 years in space from PhysOrg.com The Vanguard I satellite celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Its launch on March 17, 1958 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, culminated the efforts of America&#8217;s first official space satellite program begun in September 1955. The first solar-powered satellite, Vanguard I has the distinction of being the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/happy-birthday-vanguard-i-spac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday Vanguard I Space Probe!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-sD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"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=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}