{"id":2210,"date":"2011-08-06T01:23:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T01:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2011-08-06T01:23:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T01:23:34","slug":"one_last_look_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/06\/one_last_look_back\/","title":{"rendered":"One Last Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know, space shuttles again. Sue me. I thought this photo was worth revisiting the subject, though:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbennion.com\/images\/picosat_photo_of_atlantis.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember if you will that the last thing shuttle <i>Atlantis<\/i> did before returning to Earth was to deploy a tiny satellite called PicoSat. The photo above was taken by PicoSat as it coasted off into its new orbit. According to Christopher Ferguson, the commander of STS-135 who tweets under the handle <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/Astro_Ferg\">Astro_Ferg<\/a>, this was the last picture ever taken of a shuttle in space. (I guess that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/573236main_iss028e018218_full.jpg\">awesome shot<\/a> of <i>Atlantis<\/i>&#8216; plasma trail as she re-entered the atmosphere doesn&#8217;t count because she technically wasn&#8217;t in space any more?) Anyhow, I just ran across this during some late-night surfing and thought it was worth sharing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Photo source <a href=\"http:\/\/yfrog.com\/kkcerabj\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know, space shuttles again. Sue me. I thought this photo was worth revisiting the subject, though: Remember if you will that the last thing shuttle Atlantis did before returning to Earth was to deploy a tiny satellite called PicoSat. The photo above was taken by PicoSat as it coasted off into its new [&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-2210","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\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}