{"id":2193,"date":"2011-07-10T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T10:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2011-07-10T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T10:55:34","slug":"poetry_in_motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/10\/poetry_in_motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Atlantis <\/i>made its &#8220;backflip&#8221; maneuver earlier this morning, allowing the crew in the International Space Station to take high-resolution photos of her belly to check for any damage to the heat-shield tiles. The actual Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, its formal name, takes about nine minutes. Here&#8217;s a time-lapsed version:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ONNc0RX-3RQ\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"314\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>The RPM was instituted, of course, following the <i>Columbia <\/i>disaster, when a damaged section along <i>Columbia<\/i>&#8216;s leading wing edge allowed superhot plasma generated during re-entry to melt delicate systems and structures inside the wing. So there is a certain grim overtone to the proceedings. But it is nevertheless a beautiful sight, like a woman turning 360 degrees to show off her new dress. But once again, the voice of Mission Control reminds us&#8230; this is <i>the last time<\/i> this woman will ever show off for us. Savor every moment with her, because soon she&#8217;ll be gone.<\/p>\n<p><i>Atlantis <\/i>docked with the station at 11:07 EDT, about one hour after this maneuver began, and the hatches between them were opened at 12:47, only about 10 minutes ago as of the time of this writing. If you&#8217;re keeping track of the trivia,<span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:3}\"> this<br \/>\nis the 12th time <i>Atlantis <\/i>has docked with the ISS, and the 46th<br \/>\ntime a space shuttle has docked to any space station. Nine of those occasions were to Russia&#8217;s old <i>Mir<\/i> station,&nbsp; 37<br \/>\nto the ISS. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>And now I think it&#8217;s time for breakfast&#8230;I really should have eaten before I went down the rabbit-hole of mission updates and related videos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantis made its &#8220;backflip&#8221; maneuver earlier this morning, allowing the crew in the International Space Station to take high-resolution photos of her belly to check for any damage to the heat-shield tiles. The actual Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, its formal name, takes about nine minutes. Here&#8217;s a time-lapsed version: The RPM was instituted, of course, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}