{"id":20689,"date":"2014-12-05T20:20:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=20689"},"modified":"2014-12-05T20:20:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T02:20:29","slug":"that-orion-thing-is-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/that-orion-thing-is-great\/","title":{"rendered":"That Orion Thing Is Great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the Orion test flight:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UEuOpxOrA_0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Splashdown:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iiUxuYBR2s0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why is it great? Well, speaking as a Gemini (not my horoscope sign, but the space program going when I first gained sentience) &#8230;<\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;li&gt;First, it is big, fast, cool looking.  It actually looks like a rocket that might have been designed a decade before they ever actually made any rockets.  It is almost Deco.&lt;\/li&gt;\n\n\n&lt;li&gt;Second, they got a guy from the 1960s -- with that slightly, nasal, black and white voice people spoke in back then -- to call the &lt;del datetime=\"2014-12-06T02:10:27+00:00\"&gt;race&lt;\/del&gt; &lt;em&gt;launch&lt;\/em&gt;. &lt;\/li&gt;\n\n\n&lt;li&gt;Third, Orion is really good at taking selfies. &lt;\/li&gt;\n\n\n&lt;li&gt;Fourth, it didn't take long. The whole thing was like literally tl;dr.&lt;\/li&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Oh, and fifth: It worked!  Didn&#8217;t blow up or anything!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the rocket that shot this unit into space is small compared to the one they&#8217;ll be using in the future. (More info on the project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/orion\/#.VIJnF6TF-6Y\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Onward to Mars!  Finally!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zJQujcyncBk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the Orion test flight: Splashdown: Why is it great? Well, speaking as a Gemini (not my horoscope sign, but the space program going when I first gained sentience) &#8230; &lt;li&gt;First, it is big, fast, cool looking. It actually looks like a rocket that might have been designed a decade before they ever actually made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/that-orion-thing-is-great\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That Orion Thing Is Great!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1629,191,3171,1360,3565],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5nH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689"}],"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=20689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}